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





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"Nosey" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Nosey" :   nose, prying, nosey-parker, curious


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