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Definition: QUIDNUNC |
QUIDNUNCNoun1. One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Quidnunc A political Paul Pry, a pragmatical village politician; a political botcher or jobber. Quidnunc is the chief character in Murphy's farce of The Upholsterer, or What News? The words are Latin, and mean "What now?" "What has turned up?" The original of this political busybody was the father of Dr. Arne and his sister, Mrs. Cibber, who lived in King Street, Covent Garden. (See The Tatler, 155, etc.) "Familiar to a few quidnuncs."- The Times. "The Florentine quidnuncs seem to lose sight of the fact that none of these gentlemen now hold office."- The Times. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | QUIDNUNC. A politician: from a character of that name in the farce of the Upholsterer. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Curiosity | Inquirer; sightseer; quidnunc, newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper; gossip; (news); rubberneck; intellectual; seeker, seeker after truth. |
Inquiry | Inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist; scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer; analyst; quidnunc; (curiosity). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
quidnunc | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "QUIDNUNC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thashethemës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сплетник (backbiter, busybody, mischief maker, rumor monger, rumour monger, scandalmonger, talebearing, taleteller, troublemaker, whisperer), клюкар (gossip, newsmonger, peddler of gossip, pedlar of gossip, retailer of gossip, rumor monger, rumour monger, scandalmonger, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale), любопитен човек (keeker, rubberneck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | všeteèka (busybody, meddler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φιλοπερίεργοσ (inquisitive, newsy, nosey, nosy), αλλοτριοπραγμών (busybody, snooper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hírharang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idnuncquay mexeriqueiro (gossipy, newsmonger, peddler, pedlar, scandalmonger, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale), bisbilhoteiro (newsmonger, sieve, snooper). (various references) curios (agog, curiosity-monger, curious, inquisitive, meddler, odd, particular, paul pry, peculiar, prying, queer, rare, rum, strange, uncommon). (various references) сплетник (blabber, fiction-monger, gossipmonger, newsmonger, scandal-bearer, scandalmonger, talebearer, taleteller, tattletale, telltale, whisperer). (various references) onaj koji stalno nešto 'bistri'. (various references) chismoso (blab, blabber, gossip, gossiping, gossipmonger, rumor monger, rumour monger, scandalmonger, talebearer, tattletale). (various references) spridare av skvaller. (various references) meraklı taze (nosey parker, snoop), meraklı (addict, addicted, aficionado, amateur, buff, bug, curious, curious person, devotee, fancier, freak, given to, hipped, hipped on, hound, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, keen, keen on, lover, nosey, nosy, prying, quizzical, rubberneck, snoop, Snoopy, splenetic). (various references) пліткар (blabber, bobber, buzzer, cackler, earwig, gossiper, novelist, peddler, pedlar, pimp, retailer, scandalmonger, tattler, tattletale, telltale, tittle tattle). (various references) người hay phao tin bịa chuyện. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | quid. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "QUIDNUNC": quidnuncs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-i-n-n-q-u-u" | |
-4 letters: duci, quid, quin, unci. | |
-5 letters: cud, din, dui, dun, inn, nun. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-i-n-n-q-u-u" | |
+1 letter: quidnuncs. | |
+4 letters: unacquainted. | |
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