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Definition of Nosily
1. in a nosy manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nosily
Literary usage of Nosily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"... it contains of two general fact« ; the extreme dissoluteness of morale among
the higher ranks, and the prevailing ani- nosily of all classes against the ..."
2. The Aborigines of Tasmania by Henry Ling Roth, Marion E. Butler, James Backhouse Walker, John George Garson (1899)
"nosily chattering, they were breaking the stones into fragments, either by dashing
them on the rock or by striking them with other stones, and picking up ..."
3. Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North by Sue Ann Prince (2003)
"But Americans resented European competitors, who nosily looked into matters that
should provide foundations for national display of learning. ..."
4. A Text-book of Physics by Karl Eugen Guthe, William Hallock, Exum Percival Lewis, Arthur Willis Goodspeed, Albert Pruden Carman, Robert Kenning McClung (1909)
"nosily appears to be due to electrical or chemical causes. In no known case do
gases or vapors have absorption lines corresponding to all the emission lines ..."
5. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker, John Edward Gray (1860)
"... the speckles nosily in twii hand- and along the cosía of the fore wings ; a
slen- <ttr straight oblique brown line, which is obsolete towards the costa ..."
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