panurgic, adj.

[‘ Able or ready to do anything. Also (occas.): (derogatory) meddling.']

Pronunciation: Brit. /panˈəːdʒɪk/,  U.S. /pænˈərdʒɪk/

Etymology: <  ancient Greek /πανοῦργος/ ready to do anything, knavish ( <  /παν-* pan- comb. form + /ἔργον* work: see erg n.1) + -ic suffix, perhaps after Panurgic adj.1 Compare earlier panurgy n.

  Able or ready to do anything. Also (occas.): (derogatory) meddling.

1873  J. Morley /Rousseau/ I. 291 Rousseau bade..the panurgic one to attend to his own affairs.

1878  J. Morley /Diderot/ II. xvii. 279 No less panurgic and less encyclopædic a critic than Diderot himself could [etc.].

1906 /Science/ 8 June 869/1 An argument for the compelling, panurgic force of the environment.

1953  J. F. Byrne /Silent Years/ x. 105 This radical change in the British Constitution was accomplished finally by Lloyd George the Panurgic.

1998 /St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch/ (Nexis) 22 Nov. T9 That’s the situation found by the panurgic Judy Maddox, a special agent assigned to the FBI’s San Francisco office.

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