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Whose what?

This week’s words
cat's meow
patriarch's age
rake's progress
pig's whisper
parson's week


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PRONUNCIATION:

(pigz WIS-puhr)

MEANING:

noun:
1. A very short time.
2. A low or nearly inaudible whisper.

ETYMOLOGY:

Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1780.

NOTES:

It’s not clear how a pig’s whisper came to be associated with a very short time or a whisper. A pig is not known for whispering, though a grunt can be brief enough. A variant of today’s term is a pig’s whisker.

USAGE:

“For if your love knew you loved him in perpetuum, he would return and return in a pig’s whisper.”
Chanelle Benz; The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead; Ecco; 2017.

“I heard Ata informing Mummy, in a pig’s whisper, that plagiarism, too, was actionable.”
Hindu (Chennai, India); Jan 21, 2001.

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