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Apr 17, 2013
This week's themeWords coined after proper names This week's words peeping Tom nice nelly nosy parker doubting Thomas lazy Susan A.Word.A.Day on your site Add the daily word to your web page. It is free. 
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with Anu Gargnosy parker or nosey parker
PRONUNCIATION:
(NOH-zee PAHRK-uhr)
MEANING:
noun: An overly inquisitive person.
ETYMOLOGY:
From nosy + the name Parker. It's not clear who this person was. Earliest
documented use: 1890. Also see, quidnunc.
USAGE:
"Rural societies are relatively transparent: the nosy parker can
sniff out all the gossip after mass or in the pub." Fintan o'Toole; Gossip is Dead. Long Live Gossip; The Irish Times (Dublin); Dec 3, 2011. See more usage examples of nosy parker in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
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