Reverse Dictionary: PRY

ADJECTIVES
► BUSYBODYISH prying, interfering; characteristic of a busybody → 1851
► BUSY-HEADED meddlesome, prying → 1555 obs.
► EMISSITIOUS prying, inquisitive, narrowly examining → 1620 obs.
► INQUISITORIOUS like an inquisitor; offensively or impertinently inquiring or prying; making strict inquiry; inquisitive → 1641 obs.
► NEBBY inquisitive, nosy, prying → 1982 US sl.
► NEWSY of a person: news-loving; inquisitive, prying, nosy, gossipy → 1899 Amer. dial.
► NOSY ENOUGH TO WANT TO KNOW THE INS AND OUTS OF A CHOOK’S BUM excessively inquisitive; prying → Bk1999 Aust. sl.
► PIKEY nosy, prying, inquisitive → 1959 Amer. dial.
► POKE-NOSE intrusively inquisitive, prying, curious → 1862 Amer. sl.
► POKE-NOSED intrusively inquisitive, prying, curious → 1942 Amer. sl.
► QUEERIN prying, inquisitive → 1933 Sc.
► QUIZZICAL inquisitive, prying → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► TOOTING peeping, prying, spying → a1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► BUSINESS mischievous or interfering activity; prying, officiousness → 1466 obs.
► DARKING eavesdropping, prying → Bk1900 Eng. dial. obs.
► POKE a searching, rummaging, or prying → 1992 colloq.
► SCRINGE a prying, an eager search; a thorough rummage; a gleaning → Bk1904 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BUSYHEAD a prying, gossiping, meddlesome, or officious person → 1555
► EARWIG an ear whisperer; a servile flatterer; a parasite; a prying, insinuating informer or talebearer; a malicious gossip → 1633 obs.
► GIRAFFE an inquisitive or prying person → 1933 US sl.
► KEEKER one who watches or pries; a surreptitious observer of others; a peeping Tom → 1892 Sc.
► NANNY-FODGER ► NANNY-FUDGER ► NUNNY-FUDGER a meddlesome, prying person → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► NOSEY PARKER ► NOSY PARKER a person who continually pries; a meddler → 1896 colloq.
► PIKE a nosy, snoopy, or inquisitive person, a prying person → 1959 Amer. dial.
► POKE-NOSE a prying, snoopy, or inquisitive person; a meddler → 1915 Amer. dial.
► POKER a person who pokes or pries into things → 1608
► QUIZ a prying, inquisitive person → 1885 Eng. dial.
► SCRINGER a person who pries about, looking out for trifles → Bk1904 Sc.
► SMELLER a prying fellow; a sneaking spy; one who tries to smell out something → 1899 sl.
► SPANIEL one who pries into or searches out something → 1562 
► STICKYBEAK a person who pries into the affairs of others; a nosy or inquisitive person → 1917 Aust. & NZ colloq.

VERBS
► BUSYBODY to behave like a busybody; to interfere, to meddle, to pry → 1874
► DARK to listen privily and insidiously; to pry into → 1781 Eng. dial.
► HAVE A STICKY to pry, to be nosy → Bk1999 Aust. sl.
► HAVE A STICKYBEAK to pry, to be nosy → 1921 Aust. sl.
► MIPE to pry → 1866 Eng. dial.  
► NEB ► NEB ABOUT to pry; to nose around, to be nosy or inquisitive → 1928 Amer. dial.
► NIB to pry, to meddle, to interfere → 1942 Amer. dial.
► NIBSHIT to pry, to meddle, to interfere → 1968 Amer. dial.
► PAUK ► PAWK to search, to look about with outstretched neck, to pry → 1893 Eng. dial.  
► PIKE to be nosy, to snoop, to pry → 1959 Amer. dial.
► PLAY JOHNNY-AT-THE-RAT-HOLE to eavesdrop; to pry into other people’s affairs → 1911 Amer. dial.
► POKE ONE’S NOSE INTO SOMETHING to pry and meddle; to examine → 1860s Amer. sl.
► POKE THE NEB INTO OTHER FOLK’S PORRIDGE to pry into other people’s affairs → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► PROJECT to wander about, to walk about aimlessly, to go prying about, to prowl, to forage → 1845 Amer. dial.
► QUISET ► QUISET ABOUT ► QUISITE to question; to ask prying questions → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► QUIZ ► QUIZ OUT to interrogate, to cross-question; to ask inquisitive question; to make prying inquiries → 1848 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► QUIZZIT to question; to inquire into, to examine; to ask prying questions → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► SCRINGE to search carefully; to wander about turning over everything; to pry about; to glean → 1898 Sc.
► SIFT to pry into, to make inquiry → 1590
► SLENCH to hunt about privately with a view to stealing food, as a cat or dog; to pry about → 1790 Eng. dial.
► SNOOP to pry, to interfere, to listen in → 1920s sl., orig. US
► STICKYBEAK to pry, to snoop, to be nosy → 1921 Aust. & NZ colloq.
► TEET to peep; to peep or pry in a sly, clandestine manner → 1785 Sc.
► TOOT to look inquisitively; to pry → 1390 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► UNDERFEEL to examine or pry into quietly or secretly → 1600 obs.