英语词汇quidnunc的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

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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