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That's a word I don't know (and neither do you): brumation, invented in 1965. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brumation https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brumation
by card_zero 2y ago
That's a word I don't know (and neither do you): brumation, invented in 1965.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brumation https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brumation
The verb ought to be brumate. But I guess the desire to pull it into line with hibernation is strong, this happens with lots of words. (Or was the influence from "rumination"?)
- imglorp 2y agoOops, thank you.
- esperent 2y agoWeirdly, I do know this word and I learned it exactly two days ago because I wanted to know the technical difference between Hibernation and Sleep in Windows 11. So I typed in "hibern..." to Kagi and it suggested "hibernation vs brumation". I got sniped because I'd never seen the word before. So yep, I did know. And probably would have forgotten by next week if I didn't see your comment! But now I'll remember forever, thank you.