SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: PETULANT

SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY:   PETULANT

PRONUNCIATION:

  (PECH-uh-lent)

MEANING:

 (adjective): Bad-tempered; cranky.

ETYMOLOGY:

[From Latin petere (to seek, assail). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly), which also gave us feather, petition, compete, perpetual, propitious, pteridology, pinnate, and lepidopterology. Earliest documented use: 1598. 

USAGE:"Idol, like the petulant child who can't understand that her antics have ceased to be entertaining, kept trying to sell it."Jodi Bradbury; American Idol; The Christian Science Monitor (Boston); Feb 14, 2014.

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