nosy parker

See also: nosy-parker

English

Noun

nosy parker (plural nosy parkers)

1. Alternative spelling of nosey parker

Verb

nosy parker (third-person singular simple present nosy parkers, present participle nosy parkering, simple past and past participle nosy parkered)

1. Alternative spelling of nosey parker
   • 1981, Ursula Holden, Penny Links, page 135:

     Don't trust none of them conductors, nosy parkering.

   • 1981, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 441, page 3541:

     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.

   • 2008, Linnea Larsson, Coeur D'alene, page 142:

     She tossed her head. “He's nosy parkering.”

   • 2019, Anna Jacobs, Family Connections:

     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.