gruntle

• “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.””

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

• “There is a little more about it here, where you can also read a short history of gruntle.”

  Back-forming back-formations

• “Haow duz he getz hiz gruntle bak? ai nebbur did unnurstan dat. just wut iz a gruntle?”

  Of course I ate him. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

• “Haow duz he getz hiz gruntle bak? ai nebbur did unnurstan dat.”

  Of course I ate him. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

• “Poar kitteh haz losted hims gruntle adn haz no moar illusions az wel!”

  Disgruntled - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

• “July 16, 2008 at 12:30 pm lotz of tings at werk kan maek u loos yur gruntle..”

  Disgruntled - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

• “And the noise that it sent out was strange and slow, and it did seem to gruntle gently unto itself in that lonesome hollow, as that it had made a long and quiet grumbling there, through Eternity.”

  The Night Land

• “While her gruntle-status remains unclear, via Josh Marshall I see this startling phrase in an NYT story today:As she prepares to leave her job at the end of the year, Ms. Rice, the president's national security adviser, now finds herself at the center of a political storm, furiously defending both the White House and her own reputation.”

  ~ Angry Bear

• “You might think that if the old gruntle meant “complain,” then disgruntle would mean “to stop from complaining,” but language is not always logical.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

• “The frequentive of wrest is wrestle; of prate, prattle; of spark, sparkle; and the frequentive of grunt is gruntle.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

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