a better tomorrow

[topaz]

Laid up in bed with a 101dF fever for the last three days;
contractors ripping up the garage ceiling;
6-12 inches of snow coming in the next day or so;

If I had thought this morning, "the only thing that could POSSIBLY make this day ANY BETTER would be a four-year-old waking up in the middle of the night and vomiting all over the bed?"  I'd be ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!

Y'all wake me when this is over.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a fun fact for you. "Gruntled" /= opposite of "disgruntled." For the heck of it I spent some time researching this in college, along with "ept," "ert," and other nonroot words. IIRC, in this case "dis" is an intensifier, so disgruntled means to be very gruntled.

Has the week gotten better yet?

[keyne.livejournal.com]

gruntle: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of [syn: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle]

—wordnet.princeton.edu

grun·tle
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): grun·tled; grun·tling
Etymology: back-formation from disgruntle
: to put in a good humor <were gruntled with a good meal and good conversation -- W. P. Webb>

—m-w.com

And yes, the original derivation is as you say, but the back-formation has been around for a century or so.