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/ˈstɪkibiːk/ · noun
(Commonwealth, colloquial) An overly inquisitive person, a nosey parker..
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.
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.
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.
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."
Use stickybeak when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stickybeak means (Commonwealth, colloquial) An overly inquisitive person, a nosey parker..
Common synonyms include nosey parker, snoop, look-see, quick peek.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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