quis-quis
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See also: quisquis
English
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]quis-quis
- Alternative spelling of quisquis
- 1899, James B. Montgomerie-Fleming, Desultory Notes on Jamieson's Scottish dictionary[1]:
- (…) but is there not also a Scotch word, “quis-quis” (the same in Latin), whoever, whosoever?
Adjective
[edit]quis-quis (comparative more quis-quis, superlative most quis-quis)
- Alternative spelling of quisquis
- 1899, James B. Montgomerie-Fleming, Desultory Notes on Jamieson's Scottish dictionary[2]:
- Strangers arriving in a place and being considered of doubtful character are spoken of as “Very quis-quis sort of people,” meaning, “Whoever, or Whosoever, they may be, we don't know and can't find out.”
References
[edit]- J[ames] B[rown] Montgomerie-Fleming (1899) “QUISQUOUS, iii. 593.”, in Desultory Notes on Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary, Glasgow, Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, pages 121–122