Dan is enraged by Lena's breach of workplace protocol, at first assuming she is one of the "admin staff" who has journeyed to the wharf for a "
stickybeak" (Hill 2012, 33).
"She played the busybody, the street's
stickybeak, the nosy parker.
Stickybeak is a quirky California brand for Old Bridge Cellars.
Tour the inside of an Airbus A380 Now you can take a
stickybeak around the superjumbo courtesy of Google Map.
'Many of our garden plants originated in the Himalaya,' Rita explains as we enter the '
stickybeak' part of the tour and she points out wisteria and cotoneaster in the back gardens we pass.
First noted in Linneus's Species Plantarum (1753) (1), this weed has acquired a variety of common names: cobblers pegs, grab-a-leg, Spanish needles, pitchforks,
stickybeak, hairy tickweed and many more.
Unfortunately, Steve and
stickybeak Miranda spot them, and she can't help spilling the beans to Susan, despite Rachel insisting she'd tell her stepmum herself.
To tell you the truth, Mo wanted to have a bit of a
stickybeak, curious to see how they were settling in.