English Explanatory Dictionary

Paul Pry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A nosy person.

Word forms

Paul Pry

Etymology

Name of the interfering protagonist in John Poole's 1825 comic play of the same name; alliterative, from pry.

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