The story
- Spanish · borrowed fromgruñón“grunter, grouch”
- English todaygrunion
Uncertain, but probably from American Spanish gruñón (“grunter, grouch”), from gruñir (“to grunt”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
grunion
Today it means: Either of two small fish, of the genus Leuresthes, found along the coast of Mexico and southern California, that spawn in the wet sand at certain high tides. Full definition →
Spanish gruñón