Quidnunc (noun)
kwid-nunk
An inquisitive and gossipy person.
I absolutely adore this word’s etymology: Early 18th century: from Latin quid nunc? ‘what now?’; exactly how I feel when in the presence of a quidnunc.
Example sentences
“Don’t trust her with anything important, it’ll be across the town in now time, she’s such a quidnunc”
“He’s the village quidnunc, anything worth knowing, he knows.”
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