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quidnunc

[kwid-nuhngk] Origin

quid·nunc

[kwid-nuhngk]
noun
a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip; a gossip or busybody.

Origin:
1700–10; < Latin quid nunc what now?
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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quidnunc (ˈkwɪdˌnʌŋk)
 
n
a person eager to learn news and scandal; gossipmonger
 
[C18: from Latin, literally: what now]

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quidnunc
"gossip-monger," 1709, formed from L. quid "what" and nunc "now," to describe someone forever asking "What's the news?"
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