nosy
noh zee
- s offensively curious or inquisitive
he flipped through my letters in his nosy way
- She turned 40 the book before this and lives there with her husband, who is a vet and just gets in one mess after another because she's too nosy.
- The funny thing is, even after asking so many nosy questions on the site, from whether people like eggs over easy to if they ever kissed someone who they weren't all that attracted .
- A consequence of Salinger's evasions is that he has become as famous for defending his privacy against nosy admirers and journalists as he is for writing The Catcher in the Rye .