pry
see also: Pry
Pronunciation
Pry
Proper noun
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see also: Pry
Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɹaɪ/
pry
- (intransitive) To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy.
- (intransitive) To keep asking about something that does not concern one.
- (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
pry (plural pries)
- The act of prying.
- An excessively inquisitive person.
pry (plural pries)
Translations- German: Hebel
- Russian: рыча́г
pry
Translations- German: aufhebeln
- Spanish: hacer palanca
Pry
Proper noun
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