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Nosey Parker

noun as in prying person

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The #roofbreakup story may be the work of a nosey parker, but what is there to stop an opportunist in a public place in a country with no privacy laws?

From BBC

"I love dancing and I'm a nosey parker."

From BBC

Pipe's father, retired trainer Martin, took King to a stable on the premise of "showing him a new recruit" but the name on the box turned out to be a horse owned by "Andrew King" called "Mind Your Own Business" by "Snooping" out of "Nosey Parker".

As one of the rare working journalists who attended yesterday's John Smith's Grand National weights lunch, I decided to do some grilling of whoever was unlucky enough to be drawn next to me for the meal and Gordon Elliot was the man who looked like hewould have preferred to have had some eye candy seated next to him rather than an overweight, over-eager nosey parker trying to squirrel out some good ante-post value.

Three days later, the AA app was replaced by one that didn't have Nosey Parker's name in its keywords.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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