单词 | quidnuncism |
释义 | > as lemmasˈquidnuncism ˈquidnuncism n. now rare curiosity; love of news or gossip. ΚΠ 1816 B. Waterhouse Jrnl. Young Man Mass. (1911) vi. 298 Our commander's pocket was not the lighter for New England ‘quidnuncism’. 1847 J. Cairns Let. in Life (1895) xi. 281 The ne plus ultra of disappointed religious quid-nunc-ism. 1901 Athens (Ohio) Messenger & Herald 21 Nov. 2/3 Solistry is now becoing a fashionable fad among those who sit upon the mountain-top of elite social buncombeism, quidnuncism, gossipism and gossameric insipidity. < as lemmas |
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