Prodnose

noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of busybody. slang

    "It would be rash to suppose that the Institute was just a gatherum of clay-minded prodnoses."

Verb
  1. 1
    To meddle; to interfere where one is unwelcome. slang

    "It's up to you, ladies and gents of the jury, to judge in all fairness whether what follows is in itself culpable, or whether rather the fact that it leads up to the Old Cock getting the push is just another example of the stinking hypocrisy of the official mind which while getting up to I wouldn't like to say what under their whited sheets in their safe suburban nights, puts on a celluloid collar in the morning and with a tight greasy mind goes prodnosing around with a black note-book and a stub of pencil picking up evidence of immorality and inefficiency on the part of war veterans and other true men of the world."

Example

More examples

"It would be rash to suppose that the Institute was just a gatherum of clay-minded prodnoses."

Etymology

From the name of a character created by J. B. Morton, from prod + nose; compare stick one's nose in.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.