[‘ 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.