"nose about" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "noses about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nosing about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nosed about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nosed about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "nose about (third-person singular simple present noses about, present participle nosing about, simple past and past participle nosed about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"about\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2024, Paul Salopek, New Map: Ancient Roads of China, National Geographichttps://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-07-new-map-ancient-roads-china\nIt’s not hard to find antique roads in China. The place has been shaped and reshaped by engineers for thousands of years. As any Chinese schoolchild will tell you, grand civilizations dating to the Bronze Age blazed intricate communications networks that expanded trade and maintained military control. By nosing about a bit on foot, you can locate ghostly remnants of these historic pathways almost anywhere today, often just a few steps away from expressways.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To snoop around; to search in a place that one shouldn't"
      ],
      "id": "en-nose_about-en-verb-VndJXWiH",
      "links": [
        [
          "snoop",
          "snoop"
        ],
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nose about"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "noses about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nosing about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nosed about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nosed about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "nose about (third-person singular simple present noses about, present participle nosing about, simple past and past participle nosed about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"about\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2024, Paul Salopek, New Map: Ancient Roads of China, National Geographichttps://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-07-new-map-ancient-roads-china\nIt’s not hard to find antique roads in China. The place has been shaped and reshaped by engineers for thousands of years. As any Chinese schoolchild will tell you, grand civilizations dating to the Bronze Age blazed intricate communications networks that expanded trade and maintained military control. By nosing about a bit on foot, you can locate ghostly remnants of these historic pathways almost anywhere today, often just a few steps away from expressways.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To snoop around; to search in a place that one shouldn't"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "snoop",
          "snoop"
        ],
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nose about"
}