nosilyadv.
/ˈnəʊzᵻli/, U.S. /ˈnoʊzᵻli/ colloquial.
In a nosy or interfering manner.
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1930 A. G. Rosman Young & Secret xxi. 297 It might have been Bill or Robby, or even more likely Brent, nosily anxious to find out if she were at Wenlock after all.
1946 Capitol (Annapolis, Maryland) 12 Apr. 4/3 Nosily reading other people's letters.
1952 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. 21 (crossword clue) Inspect nosily [= pry].
1984 Financial Times 4 Feb. i. 15/4 At Kodak you can peer nosily through the window of a Victorian photographer's studio.
2000 Sunday Mail (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 30 July From our camouflaged tour truck..we had the perfect view of these animals, several of which wandered nosily up towards us.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1930- never-to-be-forgotten
- never-tracked
- never-trodden
- never-twinkling
- never-used
- never-vacant
- never-varied
- never-waning
- never-was
- never-waser
- never-weaned
- never-wearied
- never-wearing
- never-wearying
- never-weres
- never-withering
- neveradeal
- neveradone
- neveragreeing
- neveraltering
- neveranxious
- neverbeing
- neverblushing
- neverbroken
- neverceasing