"Paul Pry" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Name of the interfering protagonist in John Poole's 1825 comic play of the same name; alliterative, from pry.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1841, Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, Lady Morgan (Sydney), The Book Without a Name (volume 1, page 83)",
          "text": "This self-gratulation is very natural; but it is not very just. The desire of knowledge is innate in human nature. We are all born more or less of a Paul Pry, and inherit a good dash of the temperament of \"our general mother\"."
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        "A nosy person."
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  "etymology_text": "Name of the interfering protagonist in John Poole's 1825 comic play of the same name; alliterative, from pry.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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