DISGRUBBLEVERB
to disgruntle, to put into a sulky dissatisfaction or ill humour, to make discontented ...1689 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from dis- + 'grubble' perhaps for 'grumble' FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1689 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...It is reported Sr Rt Atkins is soe disgrubbl'd not to be Ch. J. of ye Com. Pleases yt he sath he will not have his brothers scimm milke." From: Correspondence of the Family of Hatton Being chiefly letters addressed to Christopher first Viscount Hatton 1601-1704. Letter: April 16, 1689 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933
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