CURIOSITY, CURIOUS
ADJECTIVES
► CUMOLDICTIOUS curious, unusual → 1944 Amer. dial.
► CURIOUSSOME curious, odd, peculiar, strange → 1957 Amer. dial.
► CURISOME curious, odd, peculiar, strange → 1884 Amer. dial.
► EXQUISITIVE curious; eager to discover or learn; tending to search out, bent on searching out → 1818 obs.
► FANTASQUE curious; fanciful, fantastic → 1701
► KEERIOUS ► KIRIOUS ► KWERIOUS curious → 1832 Sc.
► NEBBY curious; nosy, inquisitive, intrusive → L19 Ulster & Amer. dial.
► NEBBY-NOSED curious; nosy, inquisitive, intrusive → 1968 Amer. dial.
► POKE-NOSE curious; intrusively inquisitive, prying → 1862 Amer. sl.
► POKE-NOSED curious; intrusively inquisitive, prying → 1942 Amer. sl.
► QUEEROUS curious → 1903 Amer. dial.
► QUERIOUS curious → 1835 Sc.
NOUNS
► CUMOLDICTION a curiosity; something unusual → 1944 Amer. dial.
► FERLY a wonder, marvel, surprise; a curiosity, novelty, strange spectacle → 1721 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► INSTANCE curiosity; an event, occurrence → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► KEERIOSITY ► KIRIOSITY ► QUEERIOSITY curiosity, inquisitiveness; a curious object → 1706 Sc.
► QUEERY ► QUERY a curious or strange circumstance; a queer thing, an oddity → 1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► QUID-NUNC-ISM curiosity; love of news or gossip → 1847
► QUIDNUNCKERY curiosity; love of news or gossip → 1804
► UNCO a curiosity; a strange or unusual thing or tale; a novelty or piece of news; a wonder → 1785 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► WONDERMENTS curiosities → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► FYSIGUNKUS a man devoid of curiosity → 19C Sc.
► KEERIOSITY ► KIRIOSITY ► QUEERIOSITY a curious or eccentric person or object → 1706 Sc.
► LOOKY-LOO ► LOOKY-LOU a person who stops to look at something out of curiosity, esp. when such attention is unwelcome → 1978 colloq.
► THUMMART a curious or peculiar person → 1822 Sc. obs.
► ZOOT SNOOT an overly curious person; a gossip or snoop → 1975 Amer. sl. (Bk.)