"Nosey Parker" 1890?

Sam Clements SClements at NEO.RR.COM
Sun Oct 28 22:25:00 UTC 2007


At the risk of exposing myself to trusting Google Books too much, supposedly the term "Nosey Parker" is only found from 1907.

http://books.google.com/books?id=FUFJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA81&dq=%22nosey+parker%22+date:1850-1908&as_brr=0#PPA81,M1  shows an 1890 cite.

Comments?

Sam Clements

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