Shades of meaning...

[alexpgp]

I recently ran across a marvelously grandiloquent verb—quomodocunquize, which apparently means "to make money by whatever means possible." A blog entry at The Huffington Post suggests this sesquipedalian word is

almost the same as the modern word "hustling," except without any of the gangster-ish overtones.

Hmmm, I wonder.

The same blog notes that there is only one recorded use of the word in the OED, by a Scotsman, who as it turns out wrote:

[...] 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 clusterfists and rapacious varlets have given of late such cannibal-like proofs. (source)

Maybe it's me, I don't know—but it just seems to me that a word associated with people whose humor is churlish and whose compatriots are leprous with peevishness, and which is used to describe "clusterfists" (tightwads) and "rapacious varlets," while it may not have overtly "gangster-ish overtones" is nevertheless solidly pejorative.

The search goes on for a word that compactly describes what in recent years has been called "developing multiple streams of income."

Cheers...