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Definition: Nosy |
NosyAdjective1. 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 "nosy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: NosySynonyms: nosey (adj), prying (adj), snoopy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Curiosity | Adjective: curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious; inquiring; prying, snoopy, nosy, peering; prurient; inquisitorial, inquisitory; curious as a cat; agape; (expectant). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nosy |
| English words defined with "nosy": break in ♦ irrupt ♦ nosey ♦ prying ♦ snoopy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Stay away from the window, we've got a very nosy neighbor, mrs. Ochmonek (ALF; writing credit: Alberto Fischerman; Rodolfo Rabanal) This time, I miss Nibbler, and I'm feeling nosy and opinionated. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat. Huh? (Chinatown; writing credit: Robert Towne) | |
Lyrics | Nosy 'cause they're lonely (Like I Love You; performing artist: Justin Timberlake) | |
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| "Nosy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nosy" is used about 66 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 66 | 41,290 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "nosy": nosy-parker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
nosy parker | 66 |
nosy | 10 |
nosy neighbor | 5 |
nosy people | 4 |
bear nosy | 4 |
hotel marie nosy sainte | 3 |
lol metaspy nosy ppl | 3 |
madagascar nosy | 2 |
hotel nosy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nosy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me hundë të madhe (nosey), kureshtar (curious, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, noser, nosey, pry, staring, whimsical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فضولي (busy, busybody, curious, inquisitive, intrusive, meddlesome, obtrusive, officious, prying), محب للإستطلاع (inquisitive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | с голям нос (nosey), миризлив (nifty, nosey, odorous, whiffy), любознателен (curious, inquiring, inquisitive, nosey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nosatý (nosey), zvìdavý (curious, inquisitive, nosey), vlezlý (obtrusive, officious), slídivý (nosey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فضول (Blab, Blabber, Busybody, Inquisitive, Meddlesome, Nosey, Obtruder, Obtrusive, Officious, Pry, Pryer), دارای شامه تیز (Nosey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | indiscret, curieux (nosey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | neugierig (agog, curious, inquisitive, inquisitively, inquisitorial, longing to know, nosey, nosily, prying, pryingly, snoopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περίεργοσ (curious, inquisitive, nosey, rubberneck), φιλοπερίεργοσ (inquisitive, newsy, nosey, quidnunc), ενοχλητικά πρόθυμοσ (nosey, officious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תוחב אפו. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | indiszkrét. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nasuto (big-nosed, nosey), invadente (intruder, intrusive, nosey, officious), indiscreto (curious, indiscreet, maladroit, nosey, officious, personal, prying, tactless, telltale), ficcanaso (busybody, dicks, meddlesome, nosey, peeper, snooper, snuffler), curioso (agog, curious, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, nosey, peculiar, pry, quaint, queer, rummy, sightseeing, snoopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | お節介 (meddling), 御節介 (meddling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おせっかい (meddling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osynay panaceia (panaceas), intrometido (dissatisfaction, meddlesome, nosh, obtrusive, officious, pragmatism, pushing, pushy, snooper). (various references) nãsos, cu nasul mare, care îşi vârã nasul, bãgãcios (busy body, kibitzer, meddler, meddlesome, obtrusive, officious, prying). (various references) носатый (nosey), дурно пахнущий (nosey, rammish). (various references) nosonja, nosat (nosey), preterano radoznao (inquisitorial, nosey). (various references) preguntón, fisgón (nosey, nosey parker, prier, prying, snoop, snooper, snooping). (various references) snokande (nosey, snooping, Snoopy), förveten. (various references) ซึ่งสอ"รู้สอ"เห็น (nosey, 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, nosey, prying, quidnunc, quizzical, rubberneck, snoop, Snoopy, splenetic), kokulu (aromatic, balsamic, fragrant, nosey, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, redolent, Savory, savoury, scented, spiced, spicy), küf kokulu (dank, frowsty, frowzy, fusty, musty, nosey, smelling moldy, smelling mouldy, stuffy), her şeye burnunu sokan (impertinent, meddlesome), güzel kokulu (aromatic, fragrant, nosey, odoriferous, redolent). (various references) смердючий (fetid, foetid, foul, goatish, malodorous, nauseous, noisome, nosey, odoriferous, olid, pestilential, putrescent, putrid, smelly, stinking), цікавий (amusing, curious, entertaining, interesting, newsworthy, nosey, nutty, pry, visitable), носатий (beaky, conky, nosed, nosey), довгоносий (nosey). (various references) thọc mạch; hay can thiệp v o việc người khác người hay can thiệp v o việc người khác; người lăng xăng (nosey), tò mò (inquisitive, inquisitorial, nosey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "nosy": geognosy, pharmacognosy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "nosy": monosyllabic, monosyllabically, monosyllabicities, monosyllabicity, monosyllable, monosyllables, monosynaptic, monosynaptically, tenosynovitis, tenosynovitises. (additional references) | |
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"Nosy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fosy, Kosy, nashy, nasi, nasky, Ncsi, neoy, nesi, nesly, nesm, Nfsu, nicy, nios, Nissi, Nissy, nisy, Nkosi, Nmos, noci, nody, nomy, Nony, noosy, norsys, nory, noryl, nos, nosay, nosc, nosf, nosi, nosia, nosie, nosk, nosl, nosq, Noss, Nosso, nossy, nosu, noty, Notyp, Nouy, novy, nowy, noxy, Noy, noys, Noz, nozey, nozi, Nozy, Nozzi, nudy, nusi, nuy, Nwosu, onay, ondy, onty, ossy, osy, oys, uncosy, wosy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nosy" (pronounced nō"zē) |
| 3 | -ō" z ē | Cosey, cosy, cozy, mosey, rosy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: nos, ons, son, soy, syn, yon. | |
-2 letters: no, on, os, oy, so, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: donsy, hyson, noisy, nosey, snowy, sonly, sonny, sonsy, stony, synod, yonis. | |
+2 letters: annoys, astony, coneys, cytons, doyens, enjoys, envoys, gyrons, honeys, hysons, moneys, myosin, nonyls, nosily, noways, nylons, onyxes, pylons, rayons, rosiny, saxony, simony, snobby, snoopy, snooty, snoozy, snotty, snouty, spongy, spoony, stoney, syncom, synods, syphon, toyons, yapons, yogins, youngs, yupons. | |
+3 letters: anonyms, aroynts, baryons, beyonds, bygones, canyons, conveys, convoys, cosying, coyness, crayons, donkeys, dynamos, dynodes, ecdyson, eponyms, eryngos, etymons, gooneys, groynes, honesty, honkeys, hoydens, isogeny, isogony, isonomy, looneys, lysogen, masonry, monkeys, myosins, newsboy, noisily, nongays, nosegay, noyades, nymphos, oxygens, phoneys, phytons, pinyons, poleyns, pyrones, pythons, rhytons, ronyons, ryokans, sabayon, sensory, signory, snowily, soundly, soybean, spooney, stenoky, stonily, syconia, symbion, synagog, synanon, synchro, syncoms, syncope, synodal, synodic, synonym, synovia, syntony, syphons, tycoons, tylosin, typhons, unnoisy, unshowy, unsoncy, unsonsy, unyokes, yaupons, yoginis, yonkers, youpons, zymosan. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 73 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- ... -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o s y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0073 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)48818591 |
| 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. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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