quomodocunquize

quomodocunquize (kwoh-moh-doh-KUN-kweyez) - v., to make money in any way possible.


Coined, and quite probably last used, by 17th century essayist Sir Thomas Urquhart, based on Latin quōmodocumque, in whatever way, which he found in Horace Epistles i.i.66. In context, he is complaining about people who assume all Scotsmen are money-grubbers, because a

churlish and tenacious humor hath made many that were not acquainted with any else of that country, to imagine all their compatriots infected with the same leprosie of a wretched peevishness, whereof those quomodocunquizing cluster-fists and rapacious varlets have given of late such cannibal-like proofs, by their inhumanity and obdurate carriage, towards some whose shoes strings they are not worthy to unty

Okay, it's a very 17th century sentence, but "quomodocunquizing cluster-fists and rapacious varlets" is a delicious phrase.

---L.