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Nosey   Listen
adjective
nosey  adj.  Offensively or intrusively curious; prying; nosy; as, a nosy neighbor.
Synonyms: inquisitorial, nosy, prying, snoopy.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Nosey" Quotes from Famous Books



... true. Mr. Sherwood went to his conference with the automobile people with a lighter heart. On their advice, he told the story to the police and the description of the negro porter was recognized as that of a man who already had a police record—one "Nosey" Thompson. ...
— Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays • Annie Roe Carr

... Nosey (Play up!) This exclamation was common in our theatres in the days of Macklin, etc. M. Nozay was the leader of the ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer

... a little disappointed that her face was serious. He said, "Sure you're not just trying to be nosey?" ...
— The Odyssey of Sam Meecham • Charles E. Fritch

... the emergency. Traffic became more or less clogged, and it was early the next morning when the regiment to which the preacher belonged was entrained. During the early part of the night the men were gathered in groups, some playing "shuffle the brogan," others busy at "nosey poker," while the greater part of them were smoking their pipes and telling yarns, or stretching their weary limbs on rolls of canvas, or on ...
— Bamboo Tales • Ira L. Reeves

... sake think I'm nosey," besought Abby Daggett almost tearfully. "You know I ain't that kind; but I don't see how folks is going to help being interested in a sweet pretty girl like Miss Orr, and her coming so unexpected. And you know there's them that'll invent things that ain't ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley

... "Nosey, from nasus—truly, it is a fair epithet; and it remindeth me that my nose—suffered in the fall which I received just now. Yet I cannot ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat



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