"nosy" is a correct and usable word in English.
You can use it to describe someone who is curious or meddlesome in someone else's affairs, often in an unwelcome way. For example, "Jane was being so nosy asking all those questions about my private life!".
Tanty, the most prominent female character in the book, is a nosy old matron whose favourite pastime is discussing other people's business at the top of her voice in shops, as if she is "in the market-place back home".
As an experiment, I have been asking Republicans and Democrats what they think is at stake in this election, and invited them to tell me what would happen to America if their side loses.Even allowing for a desire to demonstrate party discipline to a nosy reporter from out of town, Republicans express their fears for the election in exceedingly stark terms.
That, he says in a parody of Islamist rhetoric, would show nosy secularists, whining human-rights groups and meddling Western governments who is boss.
Oh? "Yes, they're getting a bit nosy these days".
Seeking real names and addresses means dealing with lawyers and accountants who see it as their job to shield their clients from nosy outsiders.Attempts to change this have bogged down.
She wrote about it so persuasively and wittily, in novels that swarmed with nosy in-laws, grasping landlords, Bollywood nawabs and whining beggars, that readers assumed she was Indian.However, she was not, and could never be.
From a safe but nosy distance, they could watch as a frantic woman attempted to pack cakes on a conveyor belt that had been made to run three times as fast as usual.Car-racing nunsBritish post-war formality was always useful to him.
On the peeling ledge, pears leaned, speckled, lopsided, more than yellow— yellow squared before an open window through which flared a nosy, fluent breeze.The fluency and apparent ease with which the poem begins to present its subtle theme could not have been achieved without a great deal of careful drafting and re-drafting.
Mr Brown believes that they invent sob stories in order to ask for money, and his nosy neighbour, Mr Curry Peter Capaldii), worries aloud about the prospects for "jungle music" from the house next door.
BUSINESS travellers are nosy, it seems and the Brits are worse than the Americans.
He is not, he says, ashamed of his job, but he does not want nosy neighbours discovering his profession.
