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n. - A person who meddles in the affairs of others.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Now, short of some nosey-parker peering in, I was safe.
  • "He said he'd had a nice peaceful time without that nosey-parker of a fat boy interfering all the time, " she said.
  • Even more significant and shameful, Kahn argued, were the 'so-called master race theories' of the pigmentocrats, who would expose every marriage to the hazard that some...
  • “The rest ain’t, least of all the con founded nosey-parker Stanley — you know him, the Chicago wallah.
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