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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