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stickybeak; sticky-beak
noun- an overly inquisitive person AUSTRALIA, 1920
- “Let’s peep round the curtain first,” said Allister softly. “All right, stickybeak.” — Winifred Law, Through Space to the Planets, p. 34, 1944
- Mum told us to mind our own business and leave her alone but of course we were sticky-beaks. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 148, 1969
- — Arthur Chipper, The Aussie Swearer’s Guide, p. 54, 1972
- — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 14, 1979
- an inquisitive look AUSTRALIA, 1971
- By this stage word had spread throughout the hospital so that now hordes of nurses and other doctors were coming to have a sticky-beak. — Doug Anthony Allstars, Book, p. 92, 1982
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