prodnose

noun

Etymology

From the name of a character created by J. B. Morton, from prod + nose; compare stick one's nose in.

1
Synonym of busybody.
- It would be rash to suppose that the Institute was just a gatherum of clay-minded prodnoses.
- There are no words to describe the prodnoses who would stop finance for a boat because not enough “disadvantaged people” are involved.
2
To meddle
To meddle; to interfere where one is unwelcome.
- Above all, it was the most convincing portrait of the social worker's own thin line, between prodnosing ordinarily sad lives, and not leaping in when there might be small lives to be saved.
- “Moral – don't confuse timidity with humility,” advised Rollison, sitting back in his favourite chair. “The truth was that you prodnosed to such good effect that you had them badly worried.

No curated loop yet for prodnose. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA