GRUNTLED

PRONUNCIATION: (GRUHN-tuhld)

MEANING: adjective: Contented; happy.

ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from disgruntled, from dis- (intensifier) + gruntle (to grumble), frequentative of grunt. Earliest documented use: 1938.
__________________________

GAUNTLED - put through a series of [usually unpleasant] experiences administered by a line of people consecutively

GRANT-LED - 1. the Union armies in the later stages of the U. S. Civil War; 2. most scientific research these days, unfortunately

GRUNT-LEAD - (verb) to make an inadvertent sound of reluctance as one plays the first card in a Bridge hand; (noun) the card so led