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May 14, 2025
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susurrant

susurrant
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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 susurrate and the noun is susurrus.

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.

See more usage examples of susurrant in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. -Hal Borland, author and journalist (14 May 1900-1978)

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