| 词汇 | quidnunc |
| 词源 | quidnunc. A quidnunc is a busybody, a prying gossip who wants to know everything that’s going on. The word is quite ap- propriately formed from the Latin quid nunc? “what now?”— because such people constantly ask “What now?” “What’s the news?” “What’s happening?” Steele first records the term in a 1709 issue of the Tatler. |
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