Talk:quomodocunquize

RFV discussion: March–April 2019
Any takers? (It has a single quotation (of what looks like an adjective) already) SemperBlotto (talk) 06:33, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Reportedly labelled obsolete by the OED. It appears to be a nonce word. --Lambiam 07:07, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The same source writes: “So I have taken the liberty of extrapolating the infinitive quomodocunquize from the participle quomodocunquizing because we sorely need a word for trying to make money by whatever means possible, and for whatever reason—hunger, desperation, ambition, or naked greed.” This is all mentions, of course. --Lambiam 08:14, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Once a nonce word but now a ghost word. The OED has overfitted its definition.  The only usage (prior to its recent seizure for the curio cabinet) was this "quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets" of Urquhart's, and while the passage may be about making money, it's bad analysis to attach that sense to a nonce word formed from the Latin simply for 'however, by whatever means'.  It would be nice to be able to stamp this definition out. 4pq1injbok (talk) 22:36, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:13, 10 April 2019 (UTC)