Also fun: chuffed. It’s a contronym!
Gruntle - the revival of grunge with a motivational spin.
apologies for the kindle screenshot, can’t find the plain text anywhere
page 171, the etymologicon, mark forsyth
“You can add the frequentive suffix and call the pig a gruntler” sounds like profanity from a sci-fi movie.
Happy gruntled noises
It gruntles the mind
Same reason you don’t know individual is the opposite of dividual and derived from indivisible. Collective amnesia.
we do use “divide(d)” a lot though which is very close.
My flabbers are gasted.
What a gorm thing to say.
I know a Norwegian called Gorm and I can indeed imagine him saying this
Why isn’t anyone just whelmed?
I think I’m more combobulated.
I am nonplussed.
This entire thread is very chalant.
I find it sensical.
There’s a whole song about it: https://youtu.be/F6yGpJCEzqw
https://youtu.be/F6yGpJCEzqw without the trackers.
I thought it was the opposite of datgruntled.
Oh shit it’s dis boi
I’m gonna gruntle so hard today!
It’s not a verb.
Wow you’re disgruntling so much there
I’m gruntling a lot at those comments
In English, everything verbs.
Don’t verb nouns; it weirds language.
Don’t talk me what to do.
Denominalization goes brrr
o.o
why does nobody use this word?
because it’s just a joke.
Pfft, seems perfectly cromulent to me.
