"Word of the Week" is a meme hosted by the Plain-Spoken Pen on Mondays in which we share a word that we find entertaining, enlightening, edifying, or just plain fun to say!
I just finished reading The Benson Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine (published in 1926), and came across a new-to-me word:
From various sources on the internet, I learned that quidnunc, from the early 18th century, is a mashup of the two Latin words "quid" and "nunc" meaning "what now", mimicking the question of a nosey listener. What a great word!
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