Offended, discontented.
1682. Hodge was a little disgruntled at that Inscription.—H. Cave, ‘History of Popery,’ iv. 79. (N.E.D.)
1716. The word occurs in Read’s Weekly Journal, Oct. 6.—Notes and Queries, 11. S. i. 178.
1802. The disbantled few, who have lost their consequence, are everlastingly trumping up some infamous falsehood in the news-papers, in pamphlets and in treasonable night Caucusses, which it is certain are frequently held in New-York, and in the management of which societies, it is strongly suspected you are a principal.—J. T. Callender, ‘Letters to Alexander Hamilton, King of the Feds,’ p. 11 (N.Y.). This form of the word is very uncommon.
1811. Disgrunted is defined in the ‘Lexicon Balatronicum’ as “offended, disobliged.”
1821. Dr. Dwight quotes disgruntled (for offended) as a Cockneyism.—‘Travels,’ iv. 280.
1877. Congressman Carr misses no opportunity of getting in a whack at his disgruntled party friends.—N.Y. Tribune, Feb. 28 (Bartlett).
1884. He is very much disgruntled at Cleveland’s nomination.—Lisbon (Dak.) Star, July 18. (N.E.D.)
1909. A heavy charge of dynamite, said to have been fired by disgruntled laborers,… exploded with a tremendous crash.—N.Y. Evening Post, April 1.
