The Wonderful World Of Words, 3/14/17
"If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it."
--Idris Elba
DEFINITION:
Verb
Obtaining money by any means necessary
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
From the Latin, "quomodocunque"
The earliest, and practically the only, literary use of this word that we could find was from 1652 and is referenced below.
PRONUNCIATION:
(kwo-mo-do-kun-kwayez)
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SCRABBLE SCORE:
47! However, it is not considered an official Scrabble word. Oh, come on!
USAGE/EXAMPLES:
“Q. I am told there is a word that means "to make money in any way possible." What is it?
A. How much are you willing to pay me to know?
Oh, all right, I'll tell you. It's QUOMODOCUNQUIZE, a nonce word formed on the Latin quomodocunque, in whatever way.”
--What In The Word?
by Charles Harrington Elster, 2005
"Those QUOMODUCUNQUIZING clusterfists and rapacious varlets."
--Thomas Urquhart, 1652
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