My grunt is dissed, but was I ever gruntled?

Words like this fascinate me, presumably at one time people were gruntled, but now we seem only to be disgruntled.

Was your flabber ever unghasted? Whats your flabber anyway?

Do you ever combobulate things, rather than have them discombobulated?

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  • now we seem only to be disgruntled.

    Fun fact - disgruntled stems from a 16th century term "grunt" which means to complain. In the 1930s it shifted to mean a satisfied grunt.

    Flabbergast seems to have its origins in the 1700s, stemming from the word flabby/flappy and aghast. It implies the facial expression with flapping lips of someone taken aback by something.

    Discombobulate stems from 1852 meaning a fantastical mock-Latin American English coinage from confound or confuse, originally in "Negro dialect

    We get inflammable from the Latin verb inflammare, which combines flammare ("to catch fire") with a Latin prefix in meaning "to cause to be."
    All was fine with this situation until 1813, when a scholar translating a Latin text coined the English word flammable from the Latin flammare. 
    source https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/flammable-or-inflammable

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  • now we seem only to be disgruntled.

    Fun fact - disgruntled stems from a 16th century term "grunt" which means to complain. In the 1930s it shifted to mean a satisfied grunt.

    Flabbergast seems to have its origins in the 1700s, stemming from the word flabby/flappy and aghast. It implies the facial expression with flapping lips of someone taken aback by something.

    Discombobulate stems from 1852 meaning a fantastical mock-Latin American English coinage from confound or confuse, originally in "Negro dialect

    We get inflammable from the Latin verb inflammare, which combines flammare ("to catch fire") with a Latin prefix in meaning "to cause to be."
    All was fine with this situation until 1813, when a scholar translating a Latin text coined the English word flammable from the Latin flammare. 
    source https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/flammable-or-inflammable

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