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Today's Word "sough"

A low rustling or sighing sound on

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sough \SAU; SUHF\ (verb) - To make a soft, low sighing or rustling sound, as the wind.

(noun) - A soft, low rustling or sighing sound.

"This voice she hears in the fields, in the sough of the wind among the trees, when measured and distant sounds fall upon her ears." -- Ernest Renan, 'The Poetry of the Celtic Races'

 

Sough comes from Middle English swoughen, from Old English swogan.


 

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