Wednesday, February 23, 2011

gruntle

Gruntle does not exist in the dictionary - well, not Oxford's anyway. Words such as prepone and lungi have inserted themselves into the venerable English tome while gruntle, coined by a true-blue Brit, hasn't. What exists in the dictionary is the word in its adjectival form: gruntled.



The first known use of this word is this (but it's debated):
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. - The Code of the Woosters, P.G.Wodehouse

The following news items, while not making me actually disgruntled, makes me far from gruntled.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/rahul-gandhi-gets-out-of-car-helps-accident-victim-87253

The fourth estate displaying servility to the second creates an ill wind that bodes no good. A disgusting wind.

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