See pry on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1599 (first performance), [Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, William Houghton], The Pleasant Comodie of Patient Grissill. […], London: […] Henry Rocket, […], published 1603; republished Erlangen, Bavaria: […] Fr. Junge (Junge & Sohn), 1893, →OCLC, page 11, lines 293–294:",
"text": "[W]omen haue eagles eyes, / To prie euen to the heart, and why not you?",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 158–161:",
"text": "[…] to elude, thus wrapt in miſt / Of midnight vapor glide obſcure, and prie / In every Buſh and brake, where hap may finde / The Serpent ſleeping, […]",
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"ref": "1815, William Wordsworth, “Canto First”, in The White Doe of Rylstone; or The Fate of the Nortons. A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 19:",
"text": "And choice of studious friends had he / Of Bolton's dear fraternity: / […] / [I]n their cells with him did pry / For other lore,—through strong desire / Searching the earth with chemic fire: […]",
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"_dis1": "85 4 11",
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"sense": "to peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public",
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"word": "kurkistaa"
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"_dis1": "85 4 11",
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"ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 122, column 1:",
"text": "Watch thou, and wake when others be aſleepe, / To prie into the ſecrets of the State, […]",
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"ref": "1908, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, “Possibilities of a Pleasant Outing”, in A Room with a View, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, part I, page 73:",
"text": "We literary hacks are shameless creatures. I believe there's no secret of the human heart into which we wouldn't pry.",
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"_dis1": "5 85 10",
"code": "bg",
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"word": "пъхам си носа"
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"word": "dotorejar"
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"word": "窺探"
},
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"word": "首を突っ込む"
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"word": "سر و گوش آب دادن"
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"word": "xeretar"
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"_dis1": "5 85 10",
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"roman": "podsmátrivatʹ",
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"word": "подсма́тривать"
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"word": "следи́ть"
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"_dis1": "5 85 10",
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"roman": "špiónitʹ",
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"word": "шпио́нить"
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"_dis1": "5 85 10",
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"word": "выве́дывать"
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"_dis1": "5 85 10",
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"_dis1": "5 85 10",
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"ref": "1850, Herman Melville, “Night and Day Gambling in a Man-of-War”, in White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, published 1855, →OCLC, page 357:",
"text": "The two ship's corporals went among the sailors by the names of Leggs and Pounce; […] Bland, the master-at-arms, ravished with their dexterity in prying out offenders, used to call them his two right hands.",
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"ref": "1817 March 3, John Keats, “[Poems.] To ****”, in Poems, London: […] [Charles Richards] for C[harles] & J[ames] Ollier, […], →OCLC; reprinted in Poems (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, 1927, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 37:",
"text": "With those beauties, scarce discern'd, / Kept with such sweet privacy, / That they seldom meet the eye / Of the little loves that fly / Round about with eager pry.",
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"sense": "act of prying; close and curious look",
"word": "urkinta"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
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"word": "urkkiminen"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
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"word": "utelu"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
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