{"id":18711,"date":"2020-01-14T16:45:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18711"},"modified":"2020-01-14T16:47:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:47:42","slug":"are-you-a-quidnunc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18711","title":{"rendered":"Are you a quidnunc?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>quidnunc<\/strong> is &#8220;a person eager to learn news and scandal&#8221;, or in other words, a busybody, gossip or nosy parker. It comes from the Latin <em>quid nunc?<\/em> (what now?) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/quidnunc\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>If you are a quidnunc, then you could be said to be <strong>quidnunctious<\/strong> and maybe you engage in <strong>quidnuncery<\/strong> (irresponsible rumourmongering).<\/p>\n<p>I heard this word discussed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/dexter\/id1456772823?i=1000462419907\">Something Rhymes with Purple podcast<\/a>, and thought I&#8217;d write about it.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know any other words that come from phrases like this?<\/p>\n<p>What would you call a quidnunc?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quidnunc is &#8220;a person eager to learn news and scandal&#8221;, or in other words, a busybody, gossip or nosy parker. It comes from the Latin quid nunc? (what now?) [source]. If you are a quidnunc, then you could be said to be quidnunctious and maybe you engage in quidnuncery (irresponsible rumourmongering). I heard this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,15,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18715,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18711\/revisions\/18715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}