grunter

grunt +‎ -er

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹʌntə/

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• Rhymes: -ʌntə(ɹ)

grunter (plural grunters)

1. One who grunts.
   • 2007 December 19, Linda Pearce, “Tennis grunters told to stop the racket”, in The Age‎:

     Dalton, the winner of nine grand slam doubles titles, claims she would have been prepared to forfeit a match against the grunter par excellence, Maria Sharapova — and has urged the current generation of tennis players to do so.

2. Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught.
3. (slang) A pig.
   • 1849, Tennyson, Poems, volume 2, page 224:

     We did but keep you surety for our son, / If this be he, — or a draggled mawkin, thou, / That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge[.]

   • 1875, W. R. Ancketill, The Adventures of Mick Callighin, M.P.:

     A pig fight on board ship has always amused me very much: stand on the bridge, and look down into the crowded pen of grunters […]

4. (dated, brass founding) A hook used in lifting a crucible.

• (fish): tiger perch