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nosy parker en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of nosey parker.
I’m starting to think she has a point. In fact, we should all work a little harder at minding our own business. Because I’m not the only nosy parker out there, am I?
2025 July 22, Arwa Mahdawi, “Obsessed with the Coldplay kiss cam story? I was too, until I realised the sinister truth at the heart of it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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nosy parker en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of nosey parker.
Don't trust none of them conductors, nosy parkering.
1981, Ursula Holden, Penny Links, page 135:The Bill will have some populistic appeal. There will be those who would like to Nosy Parker into the private affairs of members of Parliament.
1981, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 441, page 3541:You'd no right to go nosy parkering in your grandad's cupboard in the first place, and you've no right to interfere in this, either.
2019, Anna Jacobs, Family Connections:She tossed her head. “He's nosy parkering.”
2008, Linnea Larsson, Coeur D'alene, page 142:
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