By the way, "disgruntled" is a very neat word too. And so is "pulverize".Can one be "gruntled"? Can something be made into a "pulver", hence pulverized? No. Very strange indeed.
Hmmm...according to the dictionary, pulverize means to make into a fine powder (or to defeat totally), so I guess that "pulver" may have once meant fine powder...
That still doesn't tell us where "gruntled" came from.
- LH