brontide

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brontide
noun

Pronunciation:
[bron-tahyd]

Definition:
A sound like distant thunder, sometimes caused by seismic movement.

Usage:
“That storm’s coming our way, lads, judging by the brontide,” the Pirate captain Thunder-Guts said. “Either that or it’s me stomach, bell peppers’ll prevent scurvy but they won’t do ye any good with the lady folk, if ye catch me drift.”

Etymology:
From the Greek bronte meaning “thunder” and from the suffix id, also Greek, meaning “offspring of.”

Love Tahlia, who wonders how she got from doing art portrait research to “cures for scurvy” so fast.

Comments

[viva-lla-gloria.livejournal.com]

Love your example sentence! :D

[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

It's also where we get brontosaurus from!

[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

... I'm not sure what they were thinking, but it's hardly a deceptive animal. Deceptive how, I wonder?

"Hey, look, it's a set of tree trunks - let's sit here for a bit" *STOMP*

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

For a long time, they messed up which skull went with the body -- in part because it's so danged big they rarely found a complete skeleton. Once they'd sorted things out (and a couple museum curators got over their red faces for swapping out accurate skulls for ones that *everyone* knew was the right one) paleontologists renamed it to remind themselves not to do that sort of thing again.

True story.

---L.