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A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg 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 cant 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. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. -Anthony Trollope, novelist (1815-1882)
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 13:00:01 +0000

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