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Paul pry

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Noun
  1. 1
    A nosy person.

    "This self-gratulation is very natural; but it is not very just. The desire of knowledge is innate in human nature. We are all born more or less of a Paul Pry, and inherit a good dash of the temperament of "our general mother"."

Etymology

Name of the interfering protagonist in John Poole's 1825 comic play of the same name; alliterative, from pry.

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