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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsNothing more disgruntling...
... than writing a blistering retort to someone, only to find that the post has been locked before you finished. Serves me right for communicating in complete paragraphs.
Which leads me to the burning question: what's "gruntled?" I mean, does anybody walk around gruntled all day? "Hi, Mal, how are you today?" "Oh, I'm gruntled."
-- Mal
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I've never known anyone who was/is gruntled
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)A friend of mine had a similar spiel on Gomorrah. I mean, everybody knows what Sodomy is, but what's Gomorrahry, eh? Which led us to always say "Gomorrah" to each other when a hot babe walked by. Ah, undergraduates...
And let's not talk about "Faith and Gomorrah."
-- Mal
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I so needed that !!! Thank you!
Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)Faith and begorrah.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)is more properly pronounced "THE ceased"?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)"Gruntled" has to mean feeling positive in some way, but it doesn't sound like a positive word
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)It means to perceive, to know, hence re-cognize, when the thing/person has already been cognized. But "gruntle" is not in general parlance: it turns out IT specialists use it to describe the process whereby dissatisfied (disgruntled) users are appeased, which proves manifestly that geeks will do anything for attention.
-- Mal
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)1680s, from dis- "entirely, very" + obsolete gruntle "to grumble" (Middle English gruntelen, early 15c.), frequentative of grunt (v.).
rurallib
(62,448 posts)not underwhelmed or overwhelmed but just properly whelmed?
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Unless you're building an arch.
whelm (v.)
early 14c., probably from a parallel form of Old English -hwielfan (West Saxon), -hwelfan (Mercian), in ahwelfan "cover over;" probably altered by association with Old English helmian "to cover," from Proto-Germanic *hwalbjan, from PIE *kwelp- "to arch" (see gulf (n.)).