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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nosy parker

▶noun Brit. informal an overly inquisitive person.

– origin early 20th cent.: from the picture postcard caption, ‘The adventures of Nosey Parker’, referring to a peeping Tom.

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