I don't know what a gruntled worker might be, but I've known plenty who were disgruntled and have learned to keep my distance.
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Caravan guard Gruntle becomes the Mortal Sword of Treach when his friend Stonny is raped and beaten at Capustan, and he joins the campaign against the Pannion.
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The growth of talk radio and the invention of something called e-mail offer global platforms for the disgruntled, who are always more vocal than the merely gruntled.
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The word to be examined today is treated in a similarly thought-provoking phrase : " How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees ?"
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You might think that if the old gruntle meant " complain, " then disgruntle would mean " to stop from complaining, " but language is not always logical.
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I don't know what a gruntled worker might be, but I've known plenty who were disgruntled and have learned to keep my distance . ( Skube, Atlanta Journal-Constitution ) MOVED.
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The OED and Merriam-Webster list that play on a word as a back-formation from disgruntle, and the word gruntle is born again _ meaning " to put in a good humor ."
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Now click on Readers'Tales, where the categories include Around the Water Cooler, Family Business, Fed Up, Getting Even, Getting Gruntled, Inhuman Relations, Temporary Insanity and Work Is Hazardous to Your Health.
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It's quite the opposite I dain you . " As it happens, " gruntle " and " dain " are both attested much earlier, but not as antonyms of the longer forms.
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He hires the Trygalle Trade Guild to take him to that distant continent and is accompanied by Gruntle, who does this because he is irritated by all the attention from the acolytes and priestess of Trake, the new God of War.
