[Loch-Ruadh] Gruntled (was: Terrorrist's Group)
Padraig Ruad O'Maolagain
padraig_ruad at irishbard.org
Mon Apr 27 06:50:32 PDT 2009
I stand (well, sit, actually) corrected. Odd that "disgruntled" is still in the vernacular but its opposite seems to have fallen out of popular use.. Ya learn somethin' new every day! <grin>
Padraig
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--- On Sun, 4/26/09, PBW <PBW_RN at charter.net> wrote:
From: PBW <PBW_RN at charter.net>
Subject: [Loch-Ruadh] Gruntled (was: Terrorrist's Group)
To: "Shire of Loch Ruadh, Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA, Inc." <loch-ruadh at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009, 8:04 AM
gruntled
adjective
1.. (jocular) satisfied.
1938: He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. — w:P. G. Wodehouse, P. G. Wodehouse, w:The Code of the Woosters, The Code of the Woosters
Etymology: (back-form, disgruntled)
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
gruntle
v : cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
"She managed to mollify her angry boss" [syn: pacify, lenify,
conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate,
gentle]Gruntle \Grun"tle\, v. i. [Freq. of grunt.]
To grunt; to grunt repeatedly. [Obs.]
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It really is a word!
Magdaleia/Pookie
> How can you be disgruntled unless you were gruntled in the first place? And what is a gruntle anyway? Some weird exotic pet?
> Uddgar!
>
> Padraig Ruad O'Maolagain wrote:
>> Why are people always described as "disgruntled"?
>>
>> Have you ever seen anyone described as being "gruntled"? Would you even want to be described as "gruntled"? Inquiring minds want to know! (And so do I.)
>>
>> Padraig
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