The word is noun which denotes a person who is very curious about every matter. But this curiosity is accompanied with an investigative behavior comprising questions regarding the matter that have nothing to do with him and fall within somebody else’s personal domain. “He is very quidnunc, so keep him away from your sensitive matters”. The word is meant to describe a situation when a person is too noisy and that he wants to know what he is doing. We give the practical illustration of the usage of the word e.g. “what are you going to do now….please tell me”
The term is quite familiar in every day life and every person surely has had experience of at least one quidnunc. The plural of the above-mentioned word is simply ‘quidnuncs’. But it is not sure about the ‘quality’ about such people whether it should be called quidnuncism or quidnunckery. The origin of the quidnunc is Latin which means “what up?” “What are you doing?” ‘Quid’ has origin from ‘kwo’. The words e.g. ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘which’, came from the Latin word ‘quid’. So the words staring with ‘wh’ are usually interrogative words which have the origin from “quid”. So the word is used to describe a hasty and investigative person who says “what is the up-date?” or “what’s now?” It denoted a person who pokes his nose in very body’s matter and keep on asking questions that are none of his business. Webster dictionary describes its meaning in a little bit different sense and describes it as the person who is curious about all facts that are latest.
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