• IPA: /pɹaɪ/

pry

1. (intransitive) To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy.
2. (intransitive) To keep asking about something that does not concern one.
3. (intransitive) To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public).

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:

     Watch thou and wake when others be asleep, / To pry into the secrets of the state.

• French: s’immiscer
• German: schnüffeln
• Italian: intrudere
• Portuguese: bisbilhotar, xeretar
• Russian: подсма́тривать
• Spanish: entremeter (pronominal), fisgar, fisgonear, hurgar

• German: bohren, nachbohren, nachfragen

• French: scruter, fureter, fouiller
• German: genau nachsehen, genau hinsehen
• Italian: sbirciare

pry (plural pries)

1. The act of prying.
2. An excessively inquisitive person.

Noun

pry (plural pries)

1. A lever.
2. Leverage.

Translations

• German: Hebel
• Russian: рыча́г

Verb

pry

1. To use leverage to open or widen.

   Synonyms: prise (British English), prize

Translations

• German: aufhebeln
• Spanish: hacer palanca

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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