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stickybeak

[stik-ee-beek]
noun Australian Slang.
  1. a busybody; meddler.
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Origin of stickybeak

First recorded in 1925–30; sticky + beak
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British Dictionary definitions for stickybeak

stickybeak

noun
  1. an inquisitive person
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verb
  1. (intr) to pry
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Word Origin

from sticky + beak 1 (in the slang sense: a human nose)
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