STICKYBEAK

PRONUNCIATION: (STIK-ee-beek)

MEANING: noun: 1. An overly inquisitive person.
2. An inquisitive look or inspection.
verb intr.: To pry or snoop.

ETYMOLOGY: From stick, from Old English stician (to pierce or thrust) + beak (slang for a human nose). Earliest documented use: 1914.
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STICKYBEAR - a soft candy, also called a gummy bear

STICKYBEAN - a molasses-coated lima bean, meant to occupy a fussy infant as he tries to put it down and succeeds only in passing it from finger to finger

STICKY BREAK - a maneuver in a game of pool whereby the shooter disturbs the pack only minimally, so as not to leave the opponent a useful lie