How To Use Nosey In A Sentence
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Carla has added her flag design to her blog, and since I'm up in Rotorua I thought I'd nosey through piles of dusty school projects and find the concept sketches I did for a new flag.
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She leaps up to fix them orange juice and cakes, leaving me to nosey around.
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He loosened his rifle in its holster and called Nosey to heel.
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And he lifted up a rung big eneuch to fell a stot, and let flee at the monkey; but Nosey was ower quick for him, and jumping aside, he lichted on a shelf before ane could say Jock Robinson.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827
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He loosened his rifle in its holster and called Nosey to heel.
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But I also just adore noseying at other people's snapshots.
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I had intended walking through the marvellous Kirkton Glen to Glen Dochart, but spent too much time noseying around the church instead.
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he flipped through my letters in his nosey way
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Mind you, I'm always noseying at books and coveting.
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Once, he even told a nosey old besom to mind her own business.
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He borrowed from every one of the pupils — I don’t know how he spent it except in hardbake and alycompaine — and even from old Nosey’s groom, — pardon me, we used to call your grandfather by that playful epithet (boys will be boys, you know), — even from the doctor’s groom he took money, and I recollect thrashing Charles Honeyman for that disgraceful action.
The Newcomes
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Where in the Rights of Man would you find anything about thrashing cheeky baboons or debagging nosey wildlife photographers?
The japing ape
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That old lady is very nosey, so nobody likes to talk to her.
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Nothing much else to write about Saturday, just lots of catching up and me noseying into my friends' lives.
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In the north people are rather more forthcoming, which southerners regard as being over-familiar and nosey.
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I'm not sure if anyone wants to make actual contact, rather they just want to nosey at what folk are up to.
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This, of course, does not stop her noseying around, interfering and gossiping to her heart's content, especially to her completely hen-pecked hubby Norman.
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He borrowed from every one of the pupils -- I don't know how he spent it except in hardbake and alycompaine -- and even from old Nosey's groom, -- pardon me, we used to call your grandfather by that playful epithet (boys will be boys, you know), -- even from the doctor's groom he took money, and I recollect thrashing Charles Honeyman for that disgraceful action.
The Newcomes
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There's Tom Hazard now, we calls him by no other name than Nosey; 'cause, you see, his nose is the most rumbunctious part that he's got, and its almost the only part you see when you first look on him.
The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
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This, of course, does not stop her noseying around, interfering and gossiping to her heart's content, especially to her completely hen-pecked hubby Norman.
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That old lady is very nosey, so nobody likes to talk to her.
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I'm not going to be driven away by a nosey landlord and a policeman who's too big for his boots.
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
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By now some of the more nosey neighbors were peering out of their doors with curiosity.
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Books must deal with the local sheriff, an eager mortician, and a nosey reporter who all want a piece of the dying legend.
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`He's awfully nosey about poor Sir Cedric's wine cellar," Stan told Reggie.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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Much ado about nothing, maybe, but when it comes to nosey and cynical journalists, few believe there can ever be smoke without fire.
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I began to feel ashamed of my nosiness but I hadn't intended to be nosey: I was just curious.
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That old lady is very nosey, so nobody likes to talk to her.
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`I do that myself," she added, not wanting to appear nosey.
FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
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I caught that Nosey Parker reading my diary.
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Thirdly, Nosey, wi 'his kilt, and bannet, and red coat, was, to a' intents and purposes, as like a human creatur as a monkey could weel be.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827
