"Which author wrote ""If not actually disgruntled, he was far from gruntled""?"
Back-formation the verb in English is really from a (semi-)adjectival form in Latin. Even though many English words are formed this way, new coinages may sound strange, and are often used for humorous effect. For example, "gruntled" (from "disgruntled") is used only in humorous contexts, as when P. G. Wodehouse wrote, "I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled", or the character Turk in the American sitcom "Scrubs" told another character, "I don't disdain you! It's quite the opposite – I dain you." As it happens, "gruntle" and "dain" are both attested much earlier, but
Author citation (zoology) usually the author of the work. But sometimes new zoological names were not established by that author. If a true author of a written text is not directly recognisable in the original publication, she or he is not the author of a name (but the author of the work is). The text could actually be written by a different person. Some authors have copied text passages from unpublished sources without acknowledging them. In Art. 50.1.1 all these persons are excluded from the authorship of a name, if they were not explicitly mentioned in the work itself for being the responsible