单词 | prodnose |
释义 | prodnosen. colloquial. An inquisitive or nosy person. Also: spec. a detective. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > impertinent curiosity, prying > action of prying > person engaged in pryer1552 peeper1607 poker1608 Paul Pry1826 snooper1889 nosy parker1896 stickybeak1917 nosy1931 curtain-twitcher1940 prodnose1965 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > [noun] > a pursuer or detective thief-taker1535 beagle1559 thief-catcher1732 bloodhound1818 sleuth-hound1856 Richard1914 prodnose1965 1934 D. Thomas Let. 11 May in Sel. Lett. (1966) 126 Singing as loudly as Beachcomber in a world rid of Prodnose.] 1965 Spectator 12 Feb. 213/2 I shall be greatly disappointed if some prodnose does not get a PhD thesis out of these pages in 2065. 1968 V. C. Clinton-Baddeley My Foe Outstretch'd vi. 103 He was sensitive about his reputation as an amateur prodnose. 1976 Listener 5 Aug. 135/2 Were the other lonely prodnoses with clipboards, operating in the dark, copying me? Or was I, daunting thought, the only pollster operating in the entire nation? 1988 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 20 Mar. 26/5 I was pricing vitamin C at the village pharmacy when a notorious prodnose took me by the sleeve and told me that I was killing myself. 1998 Times 3 Feb. 18/3 I know that puritans, prudes and prodnoses will hijack this argument and write me crazy letters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prodnosev. rare. intransitive. To pry; to be inquisitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > be curious, wonder [verb (intransitive)] > pry prya1350 toot1390 spyc1485 underpry1600 reave1615 nose1648 rave1671 poke1715 snoop1832 Paul-Pry1836 piroot1858 stickybeak1921 prodnose1954 1954 D. Thomas Quite Early One Morning 178 A failed psychoanalyst in this life who is even now prodnosing in the air above me, casebook in claw. 1969 Daily Tel. 31 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 20/1 It is perhaps high time that the industrial psychologists who are encouraged to prodnose into most things got to work on the Press. Derivatives ˈprodnosing n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > impertinent curiosity, prying > action of prying prying1547 peeping1593 Paul-Prying1880 prodnosing1958 1958 Spectator 3 Oct. 430/1 At this time [sc. the 1940s] the social virtue of prodnosing..was still at a fairly harmless stage of development. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1965v.1954 |
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