a better tomorrow
Feb. 13th, 2007 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
topazLaid 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-02-16 03:02 pm (UTC)—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.