quidnunc

Example Sentences

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“Quid pro quo” can be found under “Q” in the dictionary proper, between “quidnunc” and “quids in.”

From The New Yorker

It was then sold in convenient pennyworths;—hence coffee-houses where wits, quidnuncs, and idlers resorted, were called “penny universities.”

From Project Gutenberg

The quidnuncs' books about gardening are about as much calculated to give one delight, as the music the child gets out of the strings of an instrument that it broke for the pride of dissection.

From Project Gutenberg

London had been bewildered, and its literary quidnuncs utterly puzzled, when such a story first came forth inscribed with an unknown name.

From Project Gutenberg

Alas! capricious fate that governs these things turned my sweet, unconscious Ellen to one forever on the alert for the appearance of this long-legged quidnunc.

From Project Gutenberg