Слово "grunt". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

'Don't grunt,' said Alice; 'that's not at all a proper way of expressing yourself.'

A minute later there was the sound of grunting.

(Grunts)

With a grunt he picked up that of Count and Countess Andrenyi and opened it.

Ackley just sort of grunted when he said

"Hm . . ." the astonished lackey grunted.

She said the last words out loud, and the little thing grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by this time).

  Angus MacWhirter only gave a grunt by way of thanks.

The other male is pant-grunting to him,

He grunted, or rather, I might say, he barked.

And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the, firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then.

Miss Lindstrom grunted something under her breath and shook her head.