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nosy (or nosey) parker * a busybody (similar to US: butt-in, buttinski, nosy) nous Good sense; shrewdness: [122] "Hillela had the nous to take up with the General when he was on the up-and-up again" (Nadine Gordimer). Rhymes with "mouse". nought the number zero, chiefly British spelling of naught [123] [124] noughts and crosses
Nosy, a 2009 studio album by the Portuguese singer Gomo "Nosey", nickname of Aloysius Parker, a fictional character in the British mid-1960s television series Thunderbirds and several films; Nosey Barbon, a character in the 1958 British film The Horse's Mouth; Nosey, original name of Snitch, a character in The Numskulls comic strip
A busybody, meddler, nosey parker, or marplot is someone who meddles in the affairs of others. An early study of the type was made by the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus in his typology, Characters , "In the proffered services of the busybody there is much of the affectation of kind-heartedness, and little efficient aid."
This is a list of British English words that have different American English spellings, for example, colour (British English) and color (American English). Word pairs are listed with the British English version first, in italics, followed by the American English version: spelt, spelled; Derived words often, but not always, follow their root.
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This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...