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[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

Mornin' folks! Apologies for missing last week. Luckily, I'm finally over my brief foray into being sick.


Quomodocunquise (-ize) [kwo-moh'doh-kun'qwise]
verb

Definition
To make money in any possible way.


Etymology
From Latin quomodocunque, meaning in whatever way. From Latin quomodo (or quo modo), literally 'In what way?' questioning the way/manner/means for something to be done.


First seen
1652 Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834), 213: Those quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets.


Usage
You know, I couldn't think of a good sentence to use, but really - why would I when the perfect one is up there? Those quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets!

Now there's a good, old-fashioned way to insult someone!

Comments

[fidgetspin.livejournal.com]

Fun word and even better insult, but one I would have to practice a few times first- quomodocunquizing doesn't just roll off the tongue! :-)

[dylan-weir.livejournal.com]

Ooh, off to look up varlet now.

[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I never thought to look that up! Let me know what it is!

[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

Varlet:

1. A man or lad acting as an attendant or servant; a menial, a groom. An attendant on a knight or other person of military importance. Varlet of the chamber, valet-de-chambre.

2. A person of a low, mean, or knavish disposition; a knave, rogue, rascal. In later use freq. without serious implication of bad qualities. Employed as an abusive form of address.

I'm guessing the second one. ;)

[dylan-weir.livejournal.com]

Not what I imagined, but good to know.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

That belongs with quidnunc and quaquaversal on a list of glorious uses of Latin demonstrative pronouns.

---L.

[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

I think I threw quaquaversal u here recently-ish. Q is the best letter ever!

My homework forthe week is, in lieu of calling my fellow colleagues just plain incompetent, is to call them rapacious varlets or quomodocunquising clusterfists!