Grunt vs Runt - What's the difference?
grunt | runt |
A short, snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
The snorting cry of a pig.
Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
(label) An infantry soldier. (From the verb, just like all the other senses.)
To make a grunt or grunts.
* Shakespeare
To make a grunt or grunts.
To break wind; to fart.
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==Norwegian Bokmål==
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The smallest animal of a litter, or,
The smallest child in the family, as in "the runt of the family."
Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
(computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
(typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
As nouns the difference between grunt and runt
is that grunt is a short, snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak while runt is the smallest animal of a litter, or.As a verb grunt
is frequentative: gruntle.grunt
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* grunt boy * grunt workVerb
(en verb) * Frequentative: gruntleReferences
Adjective
(head)runt
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
- Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.