grunge

English

Etymology

Back-formation from grungy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹʌnd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌndʒ

Noun

grunge (uncountable)

1. (informal) Dirt or filth, especially when difficult to clean.

   The cinema floor was covered in grunge deposited by the crowds.

2. (informal) The state of being filthy; grubbiness.

   Chad used to work as a coal miner, but couldn't handle the constant grunge.

3. (music) A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington in the early 1990s, which melds punk and metal.

   Alice liked to wear plaids and ripped jeans, and listen to grunge.

   • 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:

     Grunge was the de facto soundtrack of the early nineties. It’s also sometimes criticized for its sonic limitations—most groups played the same way, at the same speed and with the same worldview, usually mining the same handful of influences. It was, by design, a derivative musical form. But it did introduce at least one new idea to mainstream rock: a collective sense of self-aware skepticism.

Derived terms

• grungelike
• grunger
• grungester
• grungewear
• grungey
• grungy
• post-grunge
• postgrunge
• protogrunge
• scrunge
• soft grunge

Translations

dirt, filth

• Finnish: lika (fi)
• German: Schmutz (de) m, Dreck (de) m
• Polish: obrzydlistwo (pl) n, ohydztwo n, paskudztwo (pl) n
• Swedish: smuts (sv), lort (sv)

subgenre of alternative music

• Azerbaijani: qranj
• Bulgarian: гръндж m (grăndž)
• Esperanto: grunĝo
• Finnish: grunge (fi)
• French: grunge (fr) m
• Georgian: გრანჟი (granži)
• German: Grunge (de) m
• Italian: grunge (it) m
• Korean: 그런지 (geureonji)
• Marathi: ग्रन्ज n (granja)
• Norwegian: grunge m, grønsj (no) m
• Polish: grunge (pl) m
• Russian: гранж (ru) m (granž)
• Swedish: grunge c

Anagrams

• nugger

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁœnʒ/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

grunge m (uncountable)

1. grunge

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English grunge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrant͡ʂ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ant͡ʂ
• Syllabification: grunge

Noun

grunge m inan (related adjective grunge'owy)

1. grunge (subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington, which melds punk and metal)

Declension

Declension of grunge

	singular
nominative	grunge
genitive	grunge'u
dative	grunge'owi
accusative	grunge
instrumental	grunge'em
locative	grunge'u
vocative	grunge'u

Derived terms

nouns

• grunge'owiec

Related terms

adverbs

• grunge'owo

Further reading

• “grunge”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)
• grunge in PWN's encyclopedia

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English grunge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾant͡ʃ/ [ˈɡɾãnʲt͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -antʃ

Noun

grunge m (uncountable)

1. grunge