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Nosey

adjective
1.
Offensively curious or inquisitive.  Synonyms: nosy, prying, snoopy.  "He flipped through my letters in his nosy way" , "Prying eyes" , "The snoopy neighbor watched us all day"



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"Nosey" Quotes from Famous Books



... here and mind your business. Your business will be to steer any nosey party away. If you ...
— I'll Kill You Tomorrow • Helen Huber

... Sir Isaac's mother, and the sight of her sturdy, swarthy, and rather dignified presence flashed the thought into Mr. Brumley's mind that Sir Isaac's father must have been a very blond and very nosey person indeed. She was homely and practical and contributed very usefully to a conversation that remained a trifle fragmentary and ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... I didn't know. Course, 'tain't none of my business what's in other folks's letters. I ain't nosey, land knows. Nobody can ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln

... committee of O. P.'s whose treasonable exploits at Covent Garden you all recollect, and all of whom would have been hung from the chandeliers at that time, but for the mistaken lenity of Government. At a given signal, a well-known O. P. was to cry out from the gallery, "Nosey! Music!" whereupon all the O. P.'s were to produce from their inside pockets a long pair of shears, edged with felt, to prevent their making any noise, manufactured expressly by a wretch at Birmingham, one of Mr. Brougham's evidences, and now in custody. With these they were to cut off the heads ...
— Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum • James and Horace Smith



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