quidnunctious

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or being a quidnunc or the abearance of which: gossiping; cumbrously inquisiturient; irresponsibly rumourmongering.

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Meanings

adjectivequidnunctious (comparative more quidnunctious, superlative most quidnunctious)

comparative more quidnunctious · superlative most quidnunctious

  1. humorousrareOf, pertaining to, or being a quidnunc or the abearance of which: gossiping; cumbrously inquisiturient; irresponsibly rumourmongering.

    1946, Time Magazine - U.S. Edition - Volume 49 - Number 18, India: Written in Blood In Chicago, the American Medical Association's quidnunctious Dr. Morris Fishbein doubted the efficacy of the Gandhi suicide technique.

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    The quidnunctious yankee woman is posted in gynecology. She never breeds.

    1887, Edward Bond Foote, The Radical Remedy in Social Science - Borning Better Babies through Regulating Reproduction by Controlling Conception - An Earnest Essay on Pressing Problems, Murray Hill Publishing Company, page 130

    I guess I'll sit back and let my quidnunctious ear and ubiquitous lens gather news for the coming column.

    1978, American Flint Glass Workers' Union - Authors & Publishers, American Flint - Volume 68, page 31

Origin

From quidnunc + -tious (“full of, prone to”).

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