[ex3xu]

Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke:

    Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce
    Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my bough, joy and burden of my life
    Vidrun, fierce and clever, may our clan’s wisdom be yours:

    Never read Hacker News

But Hacker News has read of you, in their snicker-slithing susurrential warrens, and word has spread...

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

[forgotusername6]

The word "susurrential" returns only two Google results. One is for this post. Does anyone know what this word is supposed to mean?

[stevula]

susurrus or susurration is a very literary word for a whisper/whispering. The usual adjective would be susurrous or susurrant, rather than susurrential, but in any case it would mean “full of whispering sounds”.

[ex3xu]

I think it's a portmanteau of susurrus and torrential, which serves to invoke the force and volume of a torrential downpour to the description.

[antonyt]

Most likely a corruption of susurrant. From susurrus, meaning a murmuring or whispering sound.

[recuter]

I believe that is his way of calling us gossipy ultracrepidarianists.

[KineticLensman]

"An ultracrepidarian is a person who offers opinions beyond their own knowledge"