Fw: Wordsmith (5/14/2025): A.Word.A.Day -- Susurrant
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May 14, 2025
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susurrant
PRONUNCIATION:
(soo/suh-SUHR-uhnt)
MEANING:
adjective : Whispering or rustling.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin susurrare (to whisper or hum), of imitative origin. Earliest
documented use: 1791. The verb form is
and the noun is .
USAGE:
¡°She decides to seduce the scruffy macho cop with the susurrant name,
Detective Scieziesciez.¡±
Liam Lacey; One Messy Electra Complex; The Globe and Mail (Toronto,
Canada); Oct 24, 2014.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
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subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. -Hal Borland, author and
journalist (14 May 1900-1978)
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