Sentence examples for gruntle from inspiring English sources

(Some call it "frequentative," but they need preventive, not preventative, medicine). The frequentive of wrest is wrestle; of prate, prattle; of spark, sparkle; and the frequentive of grunt is gruntle.

We don't know; the O.E.D. mysteriously lists disgruntle as appearing in 1682 and meaning "to put into sulky dissatisfaction or ill humor". You might think that if the old gruntle meant "complain," then disgruntle would mean "to stop from complaining," but language is not always logical.

This, as my daughters sometimes put it, did not gruntle me.

Gruntle is what lexicographers call a frequentive, a verb that describes repeated or recurrent action.