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Re: [anglesfacil] nosy/nosey
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- Subject: Re: [anglesfacil] nosy/nosey
- From: Lou Hevly <soc(!)visca.com>
- Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 01:15:17 +0100
- In-reply-to: <27FA9183FC58D24EAD5B69228DD4DF5E03274097(!)CLNATANA.blanquer na.net>
At 20:32 31/07/04, Carles Riera Fonts wrote:
Reading the newspaper I had just find "nosy" ("... of the prurient
Brits and their nosy, farcical tabloid culture"), but according my
dicctionary I only find "nosey": are the same?
Results 1 - 100 of about 283,000 for nosy
Given to prying into the affairs of others; snoopy. See Synonyms at
curious.
Prying; inquisitive.
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: nosy, prying,
snoopy]
Results 1 - 100 of about 114,000 for nosey
[same definition}
So yes, they mean the same and it seems to be spelled "nosy" more often
than "nosey".
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Lou Hevly
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