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....gruntled? That just doesn't sound right.
QUOTE (Pure Myrrh @ Feb 13 2008, 04:52 PM) 
....gruntled? That just doesn't sound right.
The word "gruntled" in that sense is usually credited to P.G. Wodehouse, who wrote this in 1938:
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He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
At this point it's a staple of British dry humor, as shown here:
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‘No, that man,’ said Angua, ‘[with a] face like someone very disgruntled.’ ‘Oh, that was Captain Vimes. But he’s never been gruntled, I think.’
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
(Further proof, incidentally, for my claim that TP borrows heavily from Wodehouse in terms of style, if not plot.)
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