gruntle

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The Word of the Day for August 7 is:

gruntle   \GRUN-tul\   verb 
     : to put in a good humor 

Example sentence: 
     "He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if 
not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." (P.G. Wodehouse, 
_The Code of the Woosters_)

Did you know? 
     "Gruntle" is the result of a mistaken assumption about the verb 
"disgruntle," which means "to make ill-humored or discontented." The prefix 
"dis-" often means "to do the opposite of," so people naturally assumed that in 
order to have a "disgruntle" there must be a "gruntle" with exactly the 
opposite meaning. But actually, "dis-" doesn't always work that way -- in some 
rare cases it functions instead as an intensifier. "Disgruntle" developed from 
this intensifying sense of "dis-" plus "gruntle," an old word meaning "to 
grumble." "Gruntle" began to mean "to make happy" only in the 1920s, when it 
was assumed to be the antonym of "disgruntle." By contrast, "disgruntle" has 
been around since 1682, and the original grumbling "gruntle" dates back to 1589.