A brief-yet-ongoing journal of all things Carmi. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll reach for your mouse to click back to Google. But you'll be intrigued. And you'll feel compelled to return following your next bowl of oatmeal. With brown sugar. And milk.
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I was gruntled once...but then I took some Ex Lax and I was better. HA HA HA!
ReplyDeleteSorry, Carmi! I couldn't resist! ;-)
(My inner 8 year old boy was just screaming to come out!)
It is kind of similar to being discombobulated, you never hear about being combobulated.
ReplyDeleteMaybe people are disgruntled because they're frustrated that they can't be gruntled. I tried once but I really hurt myself.
ReplyDeleteI think I read something somewhere about gruntling. Some person with too much time on his or her hands tracked it down, and there was a real word used in the Middle Ages or something.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe I'm thinking of the word 'phlogiston'. Or maybe it was 'ganache'.
Maybe I should just have another beer.
Hey, after getting DISmembered wouldn't you get REmembered?
ReplyDeleteAnd if I were to be DISmembered, I suspect that I wouldn't want to live. There's some things a man just can't stand, what?
This week, I shall work on becoming Gusted. Oh, and Membered too. jk
ReplyDeleteVeda (http://vaza.blogspot,etc) says:
ReplyDeleteGruntled, as a word unto it's own, is too disgusting sounding. Sounds piggish. How would anyone really use the word in a sentence and not sound like they were referring to something gross?
"The pleasantly gruntled salesperson approached the well-dressed couple as they were looking at the BMW." -C'mon! Pleasantly and Gruntled together feels like a total oximoron if there ever was one!
I agree with the comment above, gruntled does sound more like something a pig does...I would probably only use on people I didn't like!
ReplyDeleteI love everyone's love of words. I'm going to have to dig up some more fun ones. Any recommendations?
ReplyDeleteFizgig's always been my most favourite!
ReplyDelete-Veda