Meanings (ES + gloss)
gruñido
A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself.
burro • ronco
Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
currito
A person who does ordinary and boring work.
machaca
An infantry soldier.
The events described are those encountered by only 160 men, though the adversity recounted is representative of that experienced by all grunts in Vietnam.
The poges stare at the grunts as though the grunts were Hell's Angels at the ballet.
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