[ UK /nˈə‍ʊzi/ ]
[ US /ˈnoʊzi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. offensively curious or inquisitive
    the snoopy neighbor watched us all day
    he flipped through my letters in his nosy way
    prying eyes
    curious about the neighbor's doings
    curious about the neighbor's doings
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How To Use nosy In A Sentence

  • She's stopped talking except for monosyllables.
  • He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage.
  • Objective To evaluate Test-retest reliability of Mandarin monosyllable lists with equivalency in audibility in hearing loss group.
  • A chronosynclastic infundibulum, from memory, is where everything that could be true, is true simultaneously. Three years and counting - The Panda's Thumb
  • Nutritional yeast does not contain human active methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin, absolutely needed in the body. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • The influences of twelve amino acids on S - adenosyl - L - methionine ( SAM ) production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae were investigated.
  • She's a gun-shy divorcee whose surround-sound biological clock is ticking so loudly that everyone - from her senile aunt to her nosy butcher - is scrambling to set her up.
  • SONIC REDUCER Music journalism pet peeve no. 538: e-mail interviews that allow mealymouths and word mincers to dodge and defer from behind an iron wall of monosyllables. AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
  • One particular quirk of syntax occurs remarkably often in both poems: duplication of a monosyllabic word with asyndeton, within a line.
  • As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.
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