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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.
why does nobody use this word?
because it’s just a joke.
Pfft, seems perfectly cromulent to me.
Why does “gruntled” sound even more unhappy than “disgruntled?”
It’s a real fiction, non-fiction switcheroo.
Probably because “grunt” is a sound you usually make when unhappy.
I thought it was the opposite of datgruntled.
Oh shit it’s dis boi
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.
My flabbers are gasted.
There’s a whole song about it: https://youtu.be/F6yGpJCEzqw?si=x6bz6BFG5Hxrwpps
https://youtu.be/F6yGpJCEzqw without the trackers.
Above an underling you will find a ling and above them, you will find an overling.
The existence of weaklings implies the existence of stronglings.
apologies for the kindle screenshot, can’t find the plain text anywhere
page 191, 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
This gruntles Zulthar.
I’m gonna gruntle so hard today!
It’s not a verb.
In English, everything verbs.
Don’t verb nouns; it weirds language.
Don’t talk me what to do.
Denominalization goes brrr
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Wow you’re disgruntling so much there
I’m gruntling a lot at those comments
Also fun: chuffed. It’s a contronym!
