nosey parker

nosey parker

English

Alternative forms

• nosy parker

Etymology

Unknown, 1890.[1]

Noun

nosey parker (plural nosey parkers)

1. an overly inquisitive or prying person
   • 1991, Kathleen Dayus, Where There's Life, London: Virago Press Ltd

     Yer a lotta nosey parkers.

   Synonym: stickybeak (Australia, New Zealand)

Related terms

• busybody
• curtain twitcher
• kibitzer
• marplot
• meddler

 

Translations

prying person

Catalan: manefla m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 八婆 (zh) (bāpó) (regional) Dutch: nieuwsgierig Aagje n French: fouinard (fr) m, fouinarde (fr) f German: neugierige Nase f, elender Schnüffler m, Topfgucker m Hungarian: minden lében kanál, kotnyeles (hu) Irish: gobadán m Italian: ficcanaso (it) m Japanese: おせっかい屋 (おせっかいや, osekkaiya)

Maori: ihu kurī Norman: futh'teux m (Jersey) Polish: ciekawski (pl) m Portuguese: enxerido (pt) m Russian: любопы́тная варва́ра f (ljubopýtnaja varvára) (male or female) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: њу̏шкало n Roman: njȕškalo (sh) n Spanish: metomentodo (es) m or f, metiche m or f (Latin America) Welsh: busneswr m, busnesgi m, busnes pawb m

See also

• gatecrasher, interloper, peeping tom, persona non grata, encroacher, backseat driver, intruder, buttinsky

References

1. “Nosy parker” in Gary Martin, The Phrase Finder, 1997–, retrieved 26 February 2017.