Nothing more disgruntling...

[malthaussen]

... 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]

1. Hi Mal

I've never known anyone who was/is gruntled

[malthaussen]

3. Hiya, I_T_W.

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]

4. WOW

I so needed that !!! Thank you!

[Wounded Bear]

8. Pretty sure that is supposed to be....

Faith and begorrah.

[lunatica]

2. Just be glad you're ceased and not deceased

[LiberalElite]

10. Maybe deceased

is more properly pronounced "THE ceased"?

[arcane1]

5. "Cognize" never gets any attention either.

"Gruntled" has to mean feeling positive in some way, but it doesn't sound like a positive word

[malthaussen]

7. "Cognize" is actually a word, though.

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]

6. This question whelms me... nt

[kentauros]

9. grumble, grumble, grubs again.

disgruntle (v.)
1680s, from dis- "entirely, very" + obsolete gruntle "to grumble" (Middle English gruntelen, early 15c.), frequentative of grunt (v.).

[rurallib]

11. are you ever whelmed?

not underwhelmed or overwhelmed but just properly whelmed?

[kentauros]

12. That depends on how much you wish to be covered.

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.)).