nosy (iou) and geometry (iou)

nosy adjective & noun. colloq. Also nosey. E17.
[from NOSE noun + -Y1.]
A. adjective.
Having a prominent nose. E17.
Having a distinctive smell, strong-smelling. M19.
Having a strong sense of smell. rare. L19.
Inquisitive, esp. objectionably or unwarrantedly so; prying. L19.
N. Coward If you hadn't been so..nosy you'd never have known a thing about it. P. Lively You get to looking at people, when you're on your own. It's kind of nosy.
Special collocations & comb.: nosy parker (also with cap. initials) an overly inquisitive or prying person. nosy-parker verb intrans. be overly inquisitive, pry (chiefly as nosy-parkering verbal noun & ppl adjective).
b. noun.
(A nickname for) a person having a prominent nose. L18.
(A nickname for) an overly inquisitive or prying person. M20.
nosily adverb M20.
nosiness noun E20.

geometry (iou)

geometry noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French geometrie from Latin geometria from Greek, formed as GEO- + -METRY.]
The branch of mathematics that deals with the properties and relations of magnitudes (as lines, surfaces, solids) in space; a particular system describing these properties etc. ME.
hang by geometry (of clothes) hang in a stiff, angular Fashion.
D. R. Hofstadter The sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees only in Euclidean geometry; it is greater in elliptic geometry. fig.: R. S. Thomas You are old now; time's geometry Upon your face.
b. The spatial arrangement of objects or constituent parts. M19.
B. Lovell The epicyclic geometry of the Ptolemaic Universe. Bicycle The geometry of the Savoy gives reasonable manoeuvrability at low speed.
The Art of measuring land; surveying. LME-E17.

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