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I am whelmed to learn this information (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why does "gruntled" sound even more unhappy than "disgruntled?"

[–] weastie@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Probably because "grunt" is a sound you usually make when unhappy.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

It's a real fiction, non-fiction switcheroo.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 39 points 3 days ago

My flabbers are gasted.

[–] kux@lemm.ee 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

apologies for the kindle screenshot, can't find the plain text anywhere

page 191, the etymologicon, mark forsyth

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

"You can add the frequentive suffix and call the pig a gruntler" sounds like profanity from a sci-fi movie.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought it was the opposite of datgruntled.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago

Oh shit it's dis boi

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm gonna gruntle so hard today!

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works -5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It's not a verb.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In English, everything verbs.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't verb nouns; it weirds language.

[–] activ8r@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Don't talk me what to do.

[–] kabi@lemm.ee 27 points 3 days ago

o.o

gruntle

[–] xep@fedia.io 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow you're disgruntling so much there

[–] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm gruntling a lot at those comments

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Denominalization goes brrr

[–] deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

why does nobody use this word?

because it's just a joke.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Pfft, seems perfectly cromulent to me.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same reason you don’t know individual is the opposite of dividual and derived from indivisible. Collective amnesia.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

we do use "divide(d)" a lot though which is very close.

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why isn't anyone just whelmed?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

I think I'm more combobulated.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am nonplussed.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This entire thread is very chalant.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I find it sensical.

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What a gorm thing to say.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

I know a Norwegian called Gorm and I can indeed imagine him saying this

[–] dmMeYourNudes@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 3 days ago

[–] lath@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Above an underling you will find a ling and above them, you will find an overling.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

The existence of weaklings implies the existence of stronglings.

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

This gruntles Zulthar.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Also fun: chuffed. It's a contronym!

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Happy gruntled noises

[–] lgmjon64@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's a whole song about it: https://youtu.be/F6yGpJCEzqw

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

It gruntles the mind

[–] Rbon@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

I was gruntled when it was just feet on gravel. To have come apart, I must have once been raveled.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Gruntle - the revival of grunge with a motivational spin.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Keep your employees gruntled.