# *Aspersion*
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### **PRONUNCIATION:**
(uh-SPUHR-zhuhn/shuhn)
### **MEANING:**
noun:
1. A damaging accusation: slander.
2. The sprinkling with water, as in baptism.
### **ETYMOLOGY:**
From Latin aspergere (to sprinkle), from ad- (toward) + spargere (to strew). Earliest documented use: 1570.
Aspergere's Syndrome is when you go around slandering others.
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That's tourettes is it not? Asbergers is named after a guy.
'Twas wordplay. The real syndrome is Asperger's. I was making a joke on the word "aspergere".
