quidnunc

• 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. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
• Soon after this a gaping quidnunc came to Sir Charles and told him —  A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day
• 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. —  WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
• 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. —  Doctor Thorne
• Another caustic quidnunc remarked, "In his lordship's kitchen the fire is dull, but the spits are always bright;" whereupon Jekyll interposed with an assumption of testiness, "Spits! in the name of common sense I order you not to talk about _his_ spits, for nothing turns upon them." —  A Book About Lawyers

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