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prodnose
語源
From the name of a character created by J.B. Morton, from prod + nose; compare stick one's nose in.
名詞
prodnose (複数形 prodnoses)
- (slang) Synonym of busybody.
- 1971, John Doxat, The world of drinks and drinking: an international distillation, page 101:
- The fact that the urban populace were enjoying themselves in the "gin palaces" — which also sold much else— incensed the do-gooders, prodnoses and the temperance movement in general, supported by funds largely subscribed by the more puritanical elements among the new plutocracy.
動詞
prodnose (三人称単数 現在形 prodnoses, 現在分詞 prodnosing, 過去形および過去分詞形 prodnosed)
- (slang) To meddle; to interfere where one is unwelcome.
- 1956, Wolf Mankowitz, My Old Man's a Dustman, page 106:
- It's up to you, ladies and gents of the jury, to judge in all fairness whether what follows is in itself culpable, or whether rather the fact that it leads up to the Old Cock getting the push is just another example of the stinking hypocrisy of the official mind which while getting up to I wouldn't like to say what under their whited sheets in their safe suburban nights, puts on a celluloid collar in the morning and with a tight greasy mind goes prodnosing around with a black note-book and a stub of pencil picking up evidence of immorality and inefficiency on the part of war veterans and other true men of the world.
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