Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See prier.

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  • noun A person who pries.

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Examples

  • Teh kyuuteness ob pryer pik eggs awsted teh suppleyes!

    invisible tanning salon - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • While I am sure that she did in fact feel sorrow and pity over the sick children she visited, her appearances in at church and in pryer were less frequently photographed.

    Archive 2007-09-16 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • While I am sure that she did in fact feel sorrow and pity over the sick children she visited, her appearances in at church and in pryer were less frequently photographed.

    Two Princesses, a contrast. de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • If I see a listener or a pryer in at the chinks or lockhole, I am presently on the bones of him.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • The whole city, to her mind, reeked of bergamot; she guessed a fawning lover at every street corner, a pryer at every window -- basta, basta, la città!

    Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

  • If the sharp nodosities of character caught his eye, its mysterious recesses and labyrinthine alleys allured his curiosity; this lover of “clefts,” this pryer among tangled locks and into the depths of flower-bells, peered into all the nooks and chambers of the soul with inexhaustible enterprise.

    Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

  • If the sharp nodosities of character caught his eye, its mysterious recesses and labyrinthine alleys allured his curiosity; this lover of "clefts," this pryer among tangled locks and into the depths of flower-bells, peered into all the nooks and chambers of the soul with inexhaustible enterprise.

    Robert Browning 1892

  • He (Hunston) had taken too much care that he was not observed for any vulgar pryer like Boulgaris to find a corner from which to spy upon his movements.

    Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece Bracebridge Hemyng 1871

  • After the general fortune has been told, a separate and different manipulation is performed, to learn if the pryer into futurity will obtain a particular wish; and from the position of the wish card in the pack the required answer is deduced.

    The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2 1870

  • Many was the rude questioner, whose curiosity had been quenched in drink; many the insufferable pryer, whom club-law had been called upon to silence.

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

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