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工作学习 / English / word of the day, quidnunc \KWID-nungk\, noun:
One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on; a gossip; a busybody.What a treasure-trove to these venerable quidnuncs, could they have guessed the secret which Hepzibah and Clifford were carrying along with them!
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Some wretched intrigue which had puzzled two generations of quidnuncs.
--L. Stephen, Hours in Library
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