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One who'd like to know more
Answer for the clue "One who'd like to know more ", 8 letters:
quidnunc
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Word definitions for quidnunc in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"gossip-monger," 1709, formed from Latin quid "what?" (neuter of interrogative pronoun quis "who?;" see who ) and nunc "now" (see now ), to describe someone forever asking "What's the news?"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person eager to learn news and scandal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quidnunc \Quid"nunc\, n. [L., what now?] One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on. ``The idle stories of quidnuncs.'' --Motley.
Usage examples of quidnunc.
His project, as he went on to expound, was to withdraw from the round of idle pleasures such as form the chief business of sir Fopling Popinjay and sir Milksop Quidnunc in town and to devote himself to the noblest task for which our bodily organism has been framed.
But they who were inside, members themselves, and the club quidnuncs who were always rubbing their shoulders against members, knew better.