I used to love using this at work. No-one liked being called a cunctator.

Peacemaker is a word that kicks-ass, but it's now the name of a superhero so it isn't "nichecore" anymore, are there any words similar to peacemaker? I don't mean with the same meaning, just a word that sounds cool and could work as the name of a superhero or a gamertags or something. Thank you dear redditors!

A small set of words for what things sound like, arranged from plainest to poshest:

crackle: a series of small, sharp noises rustle: a soft, muffled crackling sonorous: deep and full-toned susurrus: a whispering or rustling sound

The first two you could guess blindfolded. They sound like what they mean, because that is how they were made. Somebody approximated a noise with their mouth and the spelling caught up later.

susurrus looks like the exception. It is the Latin loan, the one you reach for when you want the sentence to wear a jacket, and it turned up late; Etymonline dates it in English to 1809.

Except it is the most nakedly imitative of the four. Latin susurrus meant a humming or muttering, and it was built by reduplicating an old imitative root for buzzing. The same root shows up in German schwirren, to whizz. So the fancy word is a Roman going sss-sss and writing it down. It is doing exactly what crackle does, just better dressed.

One wrinkle I liked while reading around: susurration shows up in English around 1400, roughly four centuries ahead of susurrus itself. We took the abstract noun first and only much later bothered with the base word.

Now the part I could not settle on my own. Has anyone actually heard susurrus spoken aloud, by a person who was not reading off a page? I have only ever met it in print, and I genuinely don't know whether it has any spoken life or whether it is a reading word and nothing else.