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Nose around   Listen
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Nose around  v. i.  To look around or search, especially where one has no authority to do so; to pry; to be nosy. Same as nose 2, v. i.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Nose around" Quotes from Famous Books



... miles into the mountains, and going up there alone didn't appeal to me a little bit. However, the Supervisor told me to start right out, to get an idea of how much timber had been cut, and in what kind of shape the ground had been left, and in short, to 'nose around a little,' as he put ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... Corporal!" Dave ordered, hobbling to the machine gun. "Swing her nose around. Now, give it ...
— Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz • H. Irving Hancock

... she makes all times a snoot on me," cried the now weeping Eva, "all times. She turns her nose around, und makes go away her eyes, und comes her tongue out long. On'y I dassent to fight mit her while I'm cousins mit her. Und over cousins you got all times ...
— Little Citizens • Myra Kelly



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