subs. (old: now recognised as verb.).—A busybody; a ‘peeping Tom’: now PAUL PRY (q.v.): from Poole’s farce.—B. E. (c. 1696); GROSE (1785).
subs. (old: now recognised as verb.).—A busybody; a ‘peeping Tom’: now PAUL PRY (q.v.): from Poole’s farce.—B. E. (c. 1696); GROSE (1785).
