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Definition: Nosey |
NoseyAdjective1. Offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nosey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
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Literature | Nosey The Duke of Wellington was lovingly so called by the soldiery. His "commander's nose" was a very distinguishing feature of the Iron Duke. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: NoseySynonyms: nosy (adj), prying (adj), snoopy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nosey |
| English words defined with "nosey": pry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nosey": neile, Nose Literature. (references) |
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| "Nosey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.12% of the time. "Nosey" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 76.12% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.4% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.48% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "nosey": nosey parker. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "nosey": nosey-parker, nosey-parkers. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nosey neighbor | 15 |
nosey parker | 13 |
nosey | 8 |
nosey people | 5 |
nosey bear | 4 |
nosey cup | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "nosey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që fut hundët (inquisitive), me nuhatje e mprehtë, me hundë të madhe (nosy), kureshtar (curious, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, noser, nosy, pry, staring, whimsical), aromatik (flavored, flavoured, fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, sweet-scented). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | с голям нос (nosy), миризлив (nifty, nosy, odorous, whiffy), любознателен (curious, inquiring, inquisitive, nosy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nosatý (nosy), zvìdavý (curious, inquisitive, nosy), slídivý (nosy), páchnoucí (fetid, malodorous, smelly, Sniffy, stinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فضول (Blab, Blabber, Busybody, Inquisitive, Meddlesome, Nosy, Obtruder, Obtrusive, Officious, Pry, Pryer), دارای شامه تیز (Nosy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fouineur, fouinard (nosey parker), curieux (nosy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | neugierig (agog, curious, inquisitive, inquisitively, inquisitorial, longing to know, nosily, nosy, prying, pryingly, snoopy), naseweis (cheeky, forward, fresh, inquisitive, nosy, precocious, saucy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περίεργοσ (curious, inquisitive, nosy, rubberneck), φιλοπερίεργοσ (inquisitive, newsy, nosy, quidnunc), ενοχλητικά πρόθυμοσ (nosy, officious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חטמ י, חטטן (digger, faultfinder, snoop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kíváncsi (agog, curious, have itching ears, inquisitive, nosy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nasuto (big-nosed, nosy), invadente (intruder, intrusive, nosy, officious), indiscreto (curious, indiscreet, maladroit, nosy, officious, personal, prying, tactless, telltale), ficcanaso (busybody, dicks, meddlesome, nosy, peeper, snooper, snuffler), curioso (agog, curious, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, nosy, peculiar, pry, quaint, queer, rummy, sightseeing, snoopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skeetagh (inquisitive, prying, sneaking), scrialtagh (descrier, inquisitive, inquisitiveness, scout), peeikearagh (curiosity, descrying, peep, peeping, pry, pryer, prying, view, view from concealment, watch), fysseragh (curiosity, inquisitive, intelligent, prescient, subtle, well-informed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oseynay cachimbo curto. (various references) любопытный (curious, newsy, nosy, pry). (various references) nosat (nosy), njuškalo (busybody, sniffer, snoop, snooper), preterano radoznao (inquisitorial, nosy). (various references) fisgón (nosey parker, nosy, prier, prying, snoop, snooper, snooping), curioso (agog, curious, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, intriguing, prying, quizzical, snooping, snoopy, staring). (various references) nyfiken (agog, curious, inquisitive), snokande (nosy, snooping, Snoopy). (various references) ซึ่งสอ"รู้สอ"เห็น (nosy, snoopy). (various references) meraklı (addict, addicted, aficionado, amateur, buff, bug, curious, curious person, devotee, fancier, freak, given to, hipped, hipped on, hound, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, keen, keen on, lover, nosy, prying, quidnunc, quizzical, rubberneck, snoop, Snoopy, splenetic), kokulu (aromatic, balsamic, fragrant, nosy, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, redolent, Savory, savoury, scented, spiced, spicy), küf kokulu (dank, frowsty, frowzy, fusty, musty, nosy, smelling moldy, smelling mouldy, stuffy), güzel kokulu (aromatic, fragrant, nosy, odoriferous, redolent), başkasının işine burnunu sokan. (various references) смердючий (fetid, foetid, foul, goatish, malodorous, nauseous, noisome, nosy, odoriferous, olid, pestilential, putrescent, putrid, smelly, stinking), цікавий (amusing, curious, entertaining, interesting, newsworthy, nosy, nutty, pry, visitable), носач, носатий (beaky, conky, nosed, nosy), з поганим запахом, з добрим нюхом (nosed), ароматний (balmy, balsamic, flavored, flavoured, fragrant, luscious, odorant, odorous, perfumed, redolent, scented), прілий, пронозливий (sly), довгоносий (nosy). (various references) thọc mạch; hay can thiệp v o việc người khác người hay can thiệp v o việc người khác; người lăng xăng (nosy), tò mò (inquisitive, inquisitorial, nosy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Nosey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nasery, Nelsey, Nensey, Nesseby, nisy, nobey, nodey, noisey, noosy, nosay, nosea, Nosei, nosen, noset, noshery, Noske, Nossen, nossy, nostei, nosu, notey, nozey, Nozy, Nussey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: eons, noes, nose, nosy, ones, oyes, snye, sone, syne, yens. | |
-2 letters: ens, eon, nos, oes, one, ons, ose, sen, son, soy, syn, yen, yes, yon. | |
-3 letters: en, es, ne, no, oe, on, os, oy, so, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: coneys, doyens, enjoys, envoys, honeys, moneys, onyxes, stoney. | |
+2 letters: beyonds, bygones, conveys, coyness, donkeys, dynodes, ecdyson, eponyms, eryngos, etymons, gooneys, groynes, honesty, honkeys, hoydens, isogeny, looneys, lysogen, monkeys, newsboy, nosegay, noyades, oxygens, phoneys, poleyns, pyrones, sensory, soybean, spooney, stenoky, syncope, unyokes, yonkers. | |
+3 letters: ankylose, annoyers, anodynes, anolytes, baloneys, bayonets, benomyls, benzoyls, boloneys, bryonies, cockneys, condyles, cryogens, cyanosed, cyanoses, cyclones, cynosure, cytosine, doyennes, drystone, dyspnoea, ecdysone, ecdysons, embryons, enjoyers, eryngoes, euonymus, evonymus, eyestone, geognosy, honestly, hyoscine, hyperons, hypnoses, hyponeas, journeys, joyances, keynotes, keystone, lysogens, lysogeny, metonyms, moneyers, mooneyes, moseying, necropsy, neotypes, newsboys, nonstyle, nosegays, oxytones, polyenes, pycnoses, pyknoses, pyranose, pyrogens, reenjoys, secondly, seignory, skyborne, slovenly, snobbery, soddenly, solemnly, solvency, soybeans, spooneys, stonefly, syncopes, syndrome, synonyme, synopses, syphoned, tourneys, tyrosine, venosity, venously, youngers, youngest, younkers, youthens, zymogens. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 73 65 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- ... . -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110011 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o s e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0073 0065 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4881857191 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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