quidnuncery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The cry so often raised abroad during the crisis of the Dreyfus case, that the military was overriding the civil power, was the veriest quidnuncery."
- "Built on hearsay, scandal, and downright fabrications, this volume, a veritable handbook of quidnuncery, is as much a work of fiction..."
Etymology
Etymology tree English quidnunc Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English quidnuncery From quidnunc + -ery.