quidnunctious

== English == === Etymology === From quidnunc +‎ -tious (“full of, prone to”). === Adjective === quidnunctious (comparative more quidnunctious, superlative most quidnunctious) (rare, humorous) Of, pertaining to, or being a quidnunc or the abearance of which: gossiping; cumbrously inquisiturient; irresponsibly rumourmongering. 1946, Time Magazine - U.S. Edition - Volume 49 - Number 18, India: Written in Blood In Chicago, the American Medical Association's quidnunctious Dr. Morris Fishbein doubted the efficacy of the Gandhi suicide technique. 1887, Edward Bond Foote, The Radical Remedy in Social Science - Borning Better Babies through Regulating Reproduction by Controlling Conception - An Earnest Essay on Pressing Problems, Murray Hill Publishing Company, page 130 The quidnunctious yankee woman is posted in gynecology. She never breeds. 1978, American Flint Glass Workers' Union - Authors & Publishers, American Flint - Volume 68, page 31 I guess I'll sit back and let my quidnunctious ear and ubiquitous lens gather news for the coming column.