| 释义 |
▪ I. prodnose, n.|ˈprɒdnəʊz|
[f. prod v. + nose n.]
An inquisitive person, a nosey-parker; spec. a detective.
1934Dylan Thomas Let. 11 May (1966) 126 Singing as loudly as Beachcomber in a world rid of Prodnose. 1965Spectator 12 Feb. 213/2, I shall be greatly disappointed if some prodnose does not get a PhD thesis out of these pages in 2065. 1968V. C. Clinton-Baddeley My Foe Outstretch'd vi. 103 He was sensitive about his reputation as an amateur prodnose. 1973D. Robinson Rotten with Honour 97 I'll tell you why, you squalid prodnose. 1976Listener 5 Aug. 135/2 Were the other lonely prodnoses with clipboards, operating in the dark, copying me? Or was I, daunting thought, the only pollster operating in the entire nation?
▪ II. prodnose, v.|ˈprɒdnəʊz|
[f. prec.]
intr. To pry; to be inquisitive. So ˈprodnosing vbl. n.
1958Spectator 3 Oct. 430/1 At this time [sc. the 1940s] the social virtue of prodnosing..was still at a fairly harmless stage of development. 1969Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 31 Oct. 20/1 It is perhaps high time that the industrial psychologists who are encouraged to prodnose into most things got to work on the Press. |