nosy parker
See also: nosy-parker
English
Verb
nosy parker (third-person singular simple present nosy parkers, present participle nosy parkering, simple past and past participle nosy parkered)
- 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.
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