Nosy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  nosy \nosy\ adj.
     Offensively or intrusively curious; prying; nosey; as, he
     flipped through my letters in his nosy way.
  
     Syn: inquisitorial, nosey, prying, snoopy.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nosy
       adj : offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the
             neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in
             his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor
             watched us all day" [syn: {nosey}, {prying}, {snoopy}]
       [also: {nosiest}, {nosier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "nosy":
     busy, busybody, curious, delving, digging, eavesdropping, fishing,
     forward, impertinent, in search of, inquisitive, inquisitorial,
     loaded for bear, looking for, meddlesome, meddling, officious,
     out for, out for bear, poking, presumptuous, probing, prying,
     pushing, pushy, searching, self-appointed, snooping, snoopy,
     spying