I love the word quidnunc, which means one who gossips because it is a word I could use to describe a lot of people who fit the definition and they wouldn't know what I was saying. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Via MeFi, where the quidnunc kid gets the prize for best answer. From Wordnik.com. [myfavoriteword.com « Gerry Canavan] Reference
Boy, what we are willing to subject ourselves to for our local raconteur (I almost said quidnunc). From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: A Quick Game of Twenty(-five) Questions] Reference
Isaac Asimov is the original quidnunc, your guide as you probe space against Reagan's Star Wars, though Isaac Asimov is not actually there. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference
The rumour-monger and the quidnunc -- to whom only brief allusion has so far been made -- had come to be regarded as distinct public nuisances. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
Not long after those days, it so happening that some considerable amount of youthful energy and quidnunc ability were required to set litigation afloat at Hong Kong, Mr Romer was sent thither as the fittest man for such work, with rich assurance of future guerdon. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Thorne] Reference
Soon after this a gaping quidnunc came to Sir Charles and told him. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day] Reference
To: neverdem; Lando Lincoln; quidnunc;. cnI redruM; SJackson; dennisw; monkeyshine. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
To: Lando Lincoln; neverdem; quidnunc;. cnI redruM; Valin; King Prout; SJackson; dennisw. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
To: Lando Lincoln; danneskjold; quidnunc;. cnI redruM; A Longer Name; A message; Aggie Mama. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
To: Lando Lincoln; neverdem; quidnunc;. cnI redruM; Valin; King Prout; SJackson; dennisw; not author-specific for articles I'd like to share. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
New words are memorised on a daily basis (forming the book's chapter headings, including autarky, decollation, fastigium and quidnunc), people are slotted into different categories like so many enzymes in a petri-dish. From Wordnik.com. [SpikeMagazine.com] Reference
Perhaps only in England, where the professional and the amateur faculties of an author can still tie the subtle knot that associates sensibility, can the disrhythmic quidnunc, the gouty antiquarian, or the purely innocent be granted space. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2] Reference
The quiet quidnunc, or demanding prig. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2] Reference
Of greater import are those quirky words we'd not have without Q: quark, quack, quadrillion, quantum, quidnunc, quoits, quench, quisling, quilt, quipster, quince, quincunx, and that most universal nonword on the planet, QWERTY. From Wordnik.com. ['Roads to Quoz'] Reference
Not long after our meeting, she told me about her delight in things beginning with the letter has a more purely geometric form) makes up for its paucity in entries by its peculiarities of meanings, by its pictographic capital-shape (a serpent curling out of its den, a tethered balloon floating away, a hatchling with one foot out of the egg), and by its unbreakable bond with its beloved Of greater import are those quirky words we'd not have without quark, quack, quadrillion, quantum, quidnunc, quoits, quench, quisling, quilt, quipster, quince, quincunx, and that most universal on the planet, QWERTY. From Wordnik.com. [WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook] Reference
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