Thursday, August 23, 2012

THE FIRST WORD


suss

PRONUNCIATION:
(suhs) 

MEANING:
verb tr.: To inspect, investigate, or to figure out.

ETYMOLOGY:
By shortening of suspect, from Latin sub- (below) + specere (to look). Earliest documented use: 1953.

USAGE:
"Within moments a swarm of small drones could arrive on the scene, to suss it [the location of the gunshot] out for the cops."
Nick Paumgarten; Here's Looking At You; The New Yorker; May 14, 2012.

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