Crossword clues for quidnunc
quidnunc
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quidnunc
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
quidnunc
n. A person eager to learn news and scandal
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.