If your younger brother is particularly grouchy, he might simply grunt in answer to your question about whose turn it is to take out the garbage. A grunt is a short, deep sound.
A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
Noun
medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught
Noun
the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs
Noun
an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker; "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from grunt to chairman in six years"
Verb
issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise; "He grunted his reluctant approval"
v. t.
To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short
groan or a deep guttural sound.
n.
A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
n.
Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the
genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A.
Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern
United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera
Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel
fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.
Grunt
Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life.
Grunt
A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
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