Gruntled

[IanDavies]

If you can be disgruntled, why can’t you be gruntled?

This has been bothering me for years.

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[Cork All Star]

There is ironic and irony, so why can you have sardonic but not sardony?

[Nathan Hughes]

Would make a good name of a horse

Gruntled
Sire the disgruntled Blackbeard

Charles Darwin to conquer the World

[Refuse To Bend]

Gruntled is a word.

The more I know the less I understand.

[IanDavies]

Get with the program, RTB, for the purposes of this light-hearted Lounge thread gruntled is not a word.

“There is ironic and irony, so why can you have sardonic but not sardony?”

Extremely good point, CAS!

It’s just wrong!

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[IanDavies]

To warm to my theme, discombobulated appears in the Urban Dictionary and I’m sure we’ve all heard it used.

But when was the last time – if ever – you heard someone describe themselves as combobulated?

Or recombobulated?

These could also be excellent names for Blackbeard (or even Little Big Bear) progeny – and don’t worry if you don’t like them much, they’re all highly unlikely to race beyond their juvenile season.

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[Richard88]

I have variously been described as awful, deceitful and unkempt. I’d do something about it but I’ve never heard of anyone being awless, deceitless or kempt.

[IanDavies]

Reliably brilliant from Richard – precisely!

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[Richard88]

Does it say something about us as a species that it’s often the negative versions of words that have survived?

[Cork All Star]

There are lots of other examples:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unpaired_word

[IanDavies]

“Does it say something about us as a species that it’s often the negative versions of words that have survived?”

I hadn’t thought of that!

Very possibly!

CAS has opened the floodgates with that link!

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[moehat]

My first thought reading this was discombobulated ( I do love that word) and I was really surprised to read that combobulate was a word. I can’t think of a way to get it into daily conversation but then again I’d say I’m discombobulated for most of the time so it wouldn’t apply anyway.

[IanDavies]

For sure, Moehat is the Duchess Of Discombobulation.

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