The English Oracle

A word/phrase describing the sound of leaves?

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00:00 A Word/Phrase Describing The Sound Of Leaves?
00:28 Answer 1 Score 5
00:51 Accepted Answer Score 27
01:19 Answer 3 Score 5
01:34 Answer 4 Score 4
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 27


Consider this lovely word, with its onomatopoeiac sibilance

susurrate, meaning to rustle, murmur or whisper

from the Latin susurrus for whisper.

From The Decline and Fall of the British Empire by Piers Brendon:

Especially alluring were the millions of date palms, with diamond-shaped striations on their trunks, golden clusters of fruit and an emerald whorl of fronds sussurating [sic] in the breeze.




ANSWER 2

Score 5


to crackle can be used referring to leaves, especially dry leaves:

  • to make slight, sudden, sharp noises, rapidly repeated.

The Free Dictionary

Ngram: leaves crackling - You Tube the sound of crackling leaves.

  • I hear the leaves crackling under my feet as I trudge through the yard. I hear children yelling as they jump...



ANSWER 3

Score 5


The word psithurism means "the sound of wind in trees or rustling leaves" (not exactly what you were looking for).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/psithurism

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/psithurism




ANSWER 4

Score 4


Crinkle is defined in Merriam-Wester as:

to give forth a thin crackling sound : rustle