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Nosy
Definitions
- 1 Prying, inquisitive or curious in other’s affairs; tending to snoop or meddle.
"They built tall fences, yet the nosy neighbors always seemed to know everything about them."
- 2 Having a large or elongated nose.
""Look at you, a handsome man of thirty, with thick brown hair and a nosy nose and enormous feet and hands that can drive a team of horses or a yoke of oxen or," she hesitated in a brief shyness, and then went on, "a loving wife.""
- 1 offensively curious or inquisitive wordnet
- 1 A look at something to satisfy one's curiosity. UK, slang
"I might wander down to the construction site for a nosy at what they're building."
- 2 A nose. childish, rare
"There was a little Rosy, / And she had a little nosy; / And she made a little posy, / All pink and white and green. / And she said, “Little nosy, / Will you smell my little posy? / For of all the flowers that growsy, / Such sweet ones ne’er were seen.” / So she took the little posy, / And she put it to her nosy, / On her little face so rosy, / The flowers for to smell; […]"
- 1 To pry into something. informal
"My brother always nosies into my diary."
Etymology
From nose + -y.
From nose + -y.
From nose + -y.
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