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nosey-parker

nosey-parker is the alternative form of nosey parker.

Meaning of nosey parker

Verb

nosey parker (third-person singular simple present nosey parkers, present participle nosey parkering, simple past and past participle nosey parkered)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To snoop; to behave in an inquisitive manner.
    • "I don't want to 'nosey parker'," he said, "but police have got to be told if there's anything wrong..."1944, Ernest Robertson Punshon, Secrets Can't be Kept, page 23

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Forms of nosey-parker

third-person singular presentnosey-parkers
present participlenosey-parkering
past participlenosey-parkered
pastnosey-parkered

Questions about nosey-parker

What is nosey-parker the alternative form of?
Nosey-parker is the alternative form of nosey parker.

Words near nosey-parker in the dictionary

  1. nosey
  2. nosey parker
  3. nosey parkered
  4. nosey parkering
  5. nosey parkers
  6. nosey-parker
  7. nosey-parkerdom
  8. nosey-parkered
  9. nosey-parkering
  10. nosey-parkerishness
  11. nosey-parkerism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nosey-parker (page history and authors); nosey parker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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