susurrus

名词 n.
/ˈsuː.sə.ɹəs/    /ˈsu.sə.ɹəs/|/səˈsəɹ.əs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A whispering or rustling sound; a murmur. literary
    — [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; […]

词形变化

susurruses plural

词源

Borrowed from Latin susurrus (“a humming, whispering”); reduplication of imitative Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”).
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