Today's Word "quidnunc"
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quidnunc \KWID-nuhngk\ (noun) - One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows or pretends to know all that is going on; a gossip; a busybody.
"What a treasure-trove to these venerable quidnuncs, could they have guessed the secret which Hepzibah and Clifford were carrying along with them!" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Quidnunc comes from Latin quid nunc?, "what now?"
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