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nosy-parker

nosy-parker is the alternative spelling 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 nosy-parker

third-person singular presentnosy-parkers
present participlenosy-parkering
past participlenosy-parkered
pastnosy-parkered

Questions about nosy-parker

What is nosy-parker the alternative spelling of?
Nosy-parker is the alternative spelling of nosey parker.

Words near nosy-parker in the dictionary

  1. nosy Nancy
  2. nosy parker
  3. nosy parkered
  4. nosy parkering
  5. nosy parkers
  6. nosy-parker
  7. nosy-parkered
  8. nosy-parkering
  9. nosy-parkers
  10. nosybodies
  11. nosybody

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nosy-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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