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茅濒补苍
noun
dash; impetuous ardor: to dance with great 茅濒补苍.
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The still unnaturalized French noun 茅濒补苍, 鈥渄ash, impetuous ardor,鈥� originally applied to a military charge or rush. 脡lan comes from Old and Middle French eslan 鈥渁 rush,鈥� from the verb eslancer 鈥渢o throw or cast a lance or dart.鈥� Eslancer in turn comes from the Latin preposition and prefix ex, ex- 鈥渙ut, out of, from鈥� and the noun lancea 鈥渓ight spear for throwing,鈥� possibly a Gaulish or Spanish loanword in Latin. 脡濒补苍 entered English in the second half of the 19th century.
how is 茅濒补苍 used?
He then launched into the Gigue of Bach鈥檚 C-major Suite鈥攔obust, driving music that Ma brought off with his usual precision and 茅濒补苍.
With a certain 茅濒补苍, the聽San Francisco Chronicle聽has taken to publishing letters from readers who remark the diminishing pleasure or usefulness of the聽San Francisco Chronicle.
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finagle
verb (used with object)
to get or achieve (something) by guile, trickery, or manipulation: to finagle an assignment to the Membership Committee.
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Finagle (or fenagle), 鈥渢o cheat or swindle a person,鈥� is in origin an American slang word. Finagle is probably a variant of fainaigue, a British dialect term with two meanings: 鈥渢o shirk work or responsibility鈥� and 鈥渢o renege at a card game,鈥� that is, to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit鈥� (this to a layman sounds an awful lot like cheating). A citation from 1839 from Herefordshire (a county in West England) reads, 鈥淚f two men are heaving a heavy weight, and one of them pretends to be putting out his strength, though in reality leaving all the strain on the other, he is said to feneague [sic闭.鈥� Fainaigue (feneague) and finagle (fenagle) have no agreed etymology. Finagle entered English in the mid-1920s.
how is finagle used?
Meng聽pleaded guilty last year聽to using his position in China to finagle more than $2 million in bribes between 2005 and 2017.
in order to provide its citizens tests for a pandemic disease, the wealthiest and most powerful nation had to desperately finagle the services of volunteer coders at Google.
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susurration
noun
a soft murmur; whisper.
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Susurration, 鈥渁 murmur, whisper,鈥� ultimately comes from the Latin noun 蝉耻蝉耻谤谤腻迟颈艒 (inflectional stem 蝉耻蝉耻谤谤腻迟颈艒n-), 鈥渁 murmur, whisper, soft rustling,鈥� a derivative of 蝉耻蝉耻谤谤腻迟(耻蝉), the past participle of the verb 蝉耻蝉耻谤谤腻谤别. Unsurprisingly, 蝉耻蝉耻谤谤腻谤别 (and all its derivatives) is onomatopoeic not only in Latin, but also in other Indo-European languages, from the Proto-Indo-European root swer-, swor-, 蝉飞峁�– 鈥渢o buzz, hum.鈥� The same root supplies the name of small animals: for instance, the root variant swor– is the source of Latin 蝉艒谤别虫 (stem 蝉艒谤颈肠-) 鈥渟hrew, shrew mouse,鈥� Greek 丑媒谤补虫 (stem 丑媒谤补办-) 鈥渟hrew, shrew mouse, hyrax鈥� and Greek 丑媒谤辞苍 鈥渂eehive, swarm (of bees).鈥� The Germanic form swar– (from swor-) supplies English swirl and swarm, Old Norse svarmr 鈥渦proar, tumult,鈥� and German schwirren 鈥渢o buzz (of an insect), whirr (of an arrow).鈥� Susurration entered English in the first half of the 15th century.
how is susurration used?
It must be the whisper of time as it bends over the horizon, a susurration of mortality none can escape.
Leaving the hotel and taking a stroll, I was reminded that the town鈥檚 homey otherness is heightened at night. … The susurrations of palms … caress the ear.
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