"nosey-parker" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: nosey-parkers [present, singular, third-person], nosey-parkering [participle, present], nosey-parkered [participle, past], nosey-parkered [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} nosey-parker (third-person singular simple present nosey-parkers, present participle nosey-parkering, simple past and past participle nosey-parkered)
  1. Alternative form of nosey parker Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: nosey parker
    Sense id: en-nosey-parker-en-verb-Vg0sAxJB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, Triad - Issue 27, page 14:",
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        {
          "ref": "1990, Edith Courtney, Familiar stranger, page 280:",
          "text": "Hope you don't think I nosey-parkered because I didn't.",
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          "text": "I'd be nosey-parkering into the half the village, if that were the case.",
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