"quidnunc" meaning in English

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        "gloss": "what now?"
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          "ref": "1785, Rudolf Erich Raspe, chapter V, in The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen:",
          "text": "We all did our duty, which, in the patriot's, soldier's, and gentleman's language, is a very comprehensive word, of great honour, meaning, and import, and of which the generality of idle quidnuncs and coffee-house politicians can hardly form any but a very mean and contemptible idea.",
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          "ref": "1809, Washington Irving, chapter VIII, in Knickerbocker's History of New York, volume 5:",
          "text": "[…] but still something was necessary to convince the community at large, to quiet those praying quidnuncs who should come after them--in short, the world must be satisfied.",
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        "A person eager to learn news and scandal."
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        "(archaic) A person eager to learn news and scandal."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "busybody"
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          "word": "buttinsky"
        },
        {
          "word": "gossip"
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          "word": "newsmonger"
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          "word": "yenta"
        }
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      ],
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        },
        {
          "word": "buttinsky"
        },
        {
          "word": "gossip"
        },
        {
          "word": "newsmonger"
        },
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          "word": "yenta"
        }
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