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Paul Pry

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Paul Pry
n
a nosy person
[from a character in the play Paul Pry by John Poole (1825)]


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She is such an inquisitive little body she is always poking that mite of a nose into everything; and as Paul Pry did not suit, the boys fell to calling her Pokey.
Some anonymous Paul Pry, too, coming down the mountain, once got a peep at his den, and found it full of bones.
 
 
 
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