Meaning of stickybeak | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An overly inquisitive person, a nosey parker.
   Commonwealth, colloquial
2. An act of looking at or watching something, especially something which does not directly concern the one looking.
   Commonwealth, colloquial

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Examples

“I walked back towards the grinning stickybeak who took a few steps backwards before fleeing for the steamy safety of his laundry.”

“Babies of this age are delightful stickybeaks, vitally interested in everything and everyone around them.”

“1999, Kate Grenville, The Idea of Perfection, 2012, Text Publishing, unnumbered page, And I like a chat, kind of thing. She glanced at Harley. Plus I′m a stickybeak, as you know.”

“Vanessa took hold of his hand. ‘She′s a dear friend as well as my business manager and,’ she giggled as she admitted her agent′s greatest flaw, ‘when it comes to her clients, the world′s biggest stickybeak.’”

“Want me to have a stickybeak at that?”

“Shall we take a stickybeak at that shop?”

“2009, Australia Justine Vaisutis, Lonely Planet, page 239, It′s worth popping into the bar for a stickybeak.”

“Between properties, we stopped off for tea with my grandmother and my aunt, and my mother produced her stash of floor plans like enemy intelligence: ‘Have a stickybeak at this!’”

“God knows what the other patients and staff made of a mob of blackfellas rocking up to visit one of our own, in a private room, to have a stickybeak at the new bub.”

“When I patted the pockets of them shorts there wasn't any phone. "It's in here on the table," said the Irishman. "And you had a good stickybeak I bet."”

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