Noun: susurrus
| Singular | susurrus |
| Plural | susurruses |
Sample Sentences
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[Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was] pelted with buckets of water by firemen, and, finally, currycombed and rubbed down by two grooms, keeping a sharp susurrus between them, so as to soothe his wounded feelings; […] [1847 February, Thomas De Quincey, “Notes on Walter Savage Landor”, in Leaders in Literature with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting Them (De Quincey’s Works; IX), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, pages 312–313:]
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The soft susurrus and sighs of the branches. [1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):]
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They heard the Green Fork before they saw it, an endless susurrus, like the growl of some great beast. [2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 555:]
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I sipped at a drink and smoked cigarettes in a silence so profound that I could hear the susurrus of the blindfold's soft fabric rustle and slip between my fingers. [2004, Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram: A Novel, →ISBN, page 613:]
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I walked steadily toward the pennant pole amid a sea of susurrus murmurings. [2007, Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind, →ISBN, page 301:]
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Bod could feel the Sleer listening to Jack's words, could feel a low susurrus of excitement building in the chamber. [2008, Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, →ISBN, page 262:]
Nouns inflected like susurrus
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin susurrus (“a humming, whispering”); reduplication of imitative Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). See: Latin Nouns '
susurrus'.