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Chris -- 2018-04-11

#1 2016-11-28 03:10:56

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

"Disgrunted"

There are lots of these:

They are also some of the easiest for disgrunted employees to recover sizeable monetary sums, far exceeding any amount of unpaid wages…
law article

Disgrunted lawyer Dmitry Vinogradov attacked the Rigla pharmaceutical warehouse where he worked this week, killing six colleagues.
gaming news

Gary Norton’s Merger Crew faces disgrunted residents
YouTube caption

That RNAi startup whose founder was shot by a disgrunted biotech exec just raised $7.5M
article

Disgrunted former soldiers storm council
headline

Any of these could easily be a mere typo, but I think eggcornicity is plausible, especially since I was spurred to search for it online by hearing someone say “disgrunted” for “disgruntled” on TV recently. A grunt is a person of low rank doing mundane tasks, and “disgrunted” is used so often in the context of angry ex-employees that I think there’s an obvious meaning connection there. And that last example invoking soldiers may be connected to “grunt” as a slang term for an infantryman.

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