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- noun An
overly inquisitive orprying person.
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Unknown, 1890.
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treeseed commented on the word nosey parker
(n): busybody
The term Nosey Parker isn’t recorded until 1907. The term nosey for someone inquisitive, figuratively always sticking their nose into other people’s affairs, is a little older, dating back to the 1880s. Before that, anyone called nosey was just somebody with a big nose, like the Duke of Wellington, nicknamed Old Nosey.
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January 28, 2008