Grunt vs Scowl - What's the difference?
grunt | scowl |
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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The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
* Spenser
(by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
* Thomson
To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
To express by a scowl.
As nouns the difference between grunt and scowl
is that grunt is a short, snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak while scowl is the wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.As verbs the difference between grunt and scowl
is that grunt is frequentative: gruntle while scowl is to wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.grunt
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* grunt boy * grunt workVerb
(en verb) * Frequentative: gruntleReferences
Adjective
(head)scowl
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)- She scowled and frowned with froward countenance.
- The scowling heavens.
- to scowl a rival into submission
- to scowl defiance