quomodocunquize

[prettygoodword]

quomodocunquize (kwo-MOH-doh-KUN-qweyez) - v., to make money by any means possible.


Can be every odd job under the sun, hustling like mad, or less licit means. According to this post, coined in 1652 from Latin quomodocunque, in whatever way, from quo modo, in what way?, which is taken from the OED. Aside from that venerable institution, this doesn't show up in dictionaries so much as lists of obscure words, but Google also finds the occasional blog post using it to make a point.

---L.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I am surprised that it does not appear somewhere in Dickens.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

It is the sort of word he'd've used if he'd known of it.

---L.