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Thursday, April 24, 2014

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.
   wordsmith.org.
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