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nosy

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See also:носы

English

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Etymology

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Fromnose +‎-y.

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Adjective

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nosy (comparativenosierormorenosy,superlativenosiestormostnosy)

  1. Prying,inquisitive orcurious in other’saffairs; tending tosnoop ormeddle.
    • 2026 January 29, Angela Haupt, “Can I Ask Someone if They’re on Ozempic?”, inTIME‎[1], archived fromthe original on1 February 2026:
      Before even considering such a conversation, ask yourself why you want to know, Casares advises. “Are you asking because you feel jealous of that person?” she says. “Are you asking because you also want to go on a GLP-1, or are you asking because you’renosy and need to know what’s going on in everybody else’s life?”
    They built tall fences, yet thenosy neighbors always seemed to know everything about them.
  2. Having a large or elongated nose.
    • 1962, Paul Engle,Golden Child, page25:
      "Look at you, a handsome man of thirty, with thick brown hair and anosy nose and enormous feet and hands that can drive a team of horses or a yoke of oxen or," she hesitated in a brief shyness, and then went on, "a loving wife."
    • 1971, William Cooper,You want the right frame of reference, page22:
      She had the same sort of handsome, square-cut features as Timothy, with the difference that her nose was small and short — it was obvious that Timothy got his thick dark hair, his brown eyes and hisnosy nose from his father, that vigorous impresario who had died suddenly of a heart-attack, his first, two years before the War began.
    • 1982,Art Journal - Volumes 42-43, page322:
      The problem is particularly acute in caricature when a variety of divergent features is forced into a precarious union, when a "nosy" nose is trying to get along with a hesitant mouth and vigilant eyebrows.
    • 2005, R. G. Crouch,The Coat: The Origin and Times of Doggett's Famous Wager, page99:
      Nosy in his looks by the large hooked proboscis, which dominated his face, as well as by character, Ebenezer wanted, perhaps even needed, to know everyone's business.

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Translations

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prying, inquisitive or curious in other’s affairs; tending to snoop or meddle—see alsomeddlesome,‎officious
having a large nose

Noun

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nosy (pluralnosies)

  1. (UK, slang) Alook at something to satisfy one'scuriosity.
    Alternative form:nosey
    I might wander down to the construction site for anosy at what they're building.
  2. (childish, rare) Anose.
    Alternative forms:nosey,nosie
    • 1890,Laura E[lizabeth] Richards, “Rosy Posy”, inIn My Nursery, Boston, Mass.:Roberts Brothers,page174:
      There was a little Rosy, / And she had a littlenosy; / And she made a little posy, / All pink and white and green. / And she said, “Littlenosy, / Will you smell my little posy? / For of all the flowers that growsy, / Such sweet ones ne’er were seen.” / So she took the little posy, / And she put it to hernosy, / On her little face so rosy, / The flowers for to smell;[…]
    • 2004 December 19, Mandel Comanda, “[What the holidays mean to me] It’s for family and friends”, inSunday Courier News,page140, column 3:
      It’s this time of year when you’re warm and cozy and white snowflakes fall on your littlenosy.
    • 2011,Miljenko Jergović, chapter IV, in Stephen M. Dickey, transl.,Ruta Tannenbaum, Evanston, Ill.:Northwestern University Press,→ISBN,page25:
      Who’s my little mouse? Whose littlenosy is this? Who has the biggest eyesies in Agramstadt?
    • 2013,Jacqueline Wilson,Queenie,Doubleday,→ISBN,page133:
      She pretended to pull off his nose and then held her fist in front of Michael’s face, her thumb peeping out between her fingers. ‘There – I’ve got your nose now!’[…] She pressed her thumb onto his little face. ‘Here’s your littlenosy, back safe and sound between your rosy cheeks,’ she said.

Verb

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nosy (third-person singular simple presentnosies,present participlenosying,simple past and past participlenosied)

  1. (informal, withinto) Topry into something.
    My brother alwaysnosies into my diary.

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nosy

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumentalplural ofnos

Malagasy

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Etymology

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FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*nusa. CompareMalaynusa.

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nosy

  1. island(area of land completely surrounded by water)

Polish

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nosy m inan

  1. nominative/accusative/vocativeplural ofnos
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