Obsolete British slang for a sixpence — one of those wonderfully strange old money terms where the coin's value gets coded in animal metaphors. A 'grunter' referred to a shilling (a pig makes a grunting sound, a pig = a shilling), so half a grunter naturally became a sixpence. Old British slang for money had a whole zoo's worth of animal references.
Back then you could get a decent meal for half a grunter if you knew where to go.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A sixpence.
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