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quidnunctious

quidnunctious adjective: of, pertaining to, or being a quidnunc or the abearance of which: gossiping; cumbrously inquisiturient; irresponsibly rumourmongering.

Adjective

quidnunctious (comparative more quidnunctious, superlative most quidnunctious)

  1. (humorous, rare) Of, pertaining to, or being a quidnunc or the abearance of which: gossiping; cumbrously inquisiturient; irresponsibly rumourmongering.
    • In Chicago, the American Medical Association's quidnunctious Dr. Morris Fishbein doubted the efficacy of the Gandhi suicide technique.1946, Time Magazine - U.S. Edition - Volume 49 - Number 18, India: Written in Blood
    • The quidnunctious yankee woman is posted in gynecology. She never breeds.1887, Edward Bond Foote, The Radical Remedy in Social Science - Borning Better Babies through Regulating Reproduction by Controlling Conception - An Earnest Essay on Pressing Problems, Murray Hill...

Forms of quidnunctious

comparativemore quidnunctious
superlativemost quidnunctious

Origin of quidnunctious

From quidnunc + -tious (“full of, prone to”).

Questions about quidnunctious

What does quidnunctious mean?
Quidnunctious means of, pertaining to, or being a quidnunc or the abearance of which: gossiping; cumbrously inquisiturient; irresponsibly rumourmongering.
What part of speech is quidnunctious?
Quidnunctious is an adjective.

Words near quidnunctious in the dictionary

  1. quidlet
  2. quidlets
  3. quidnunc
  4. quidnuncery
  5. quidnuncs
  6. quidnunctious
  7. Quidong
  8. quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
  9. quids
  10. quids in
  11. quidsworth

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