Pry

Verb

 * 1) Looking where one is not welcome; being nosey.
 * 2) To look closely and curiously at, peep

Noun

 * 1) The act of prying
 * 2) An excessively inquisitive person

Noun

 * 1) A lever.
 * 2) Leverage.

Verb

 * 1) To use leverage to open or widen.  (See also prise and prize.)

Thesaurus
Paul Pry, Paul-Pry, Peeping Tom, backseat driver, bar, beam, beat the bushes, bend the eyes, boom, burrow, busybody, cant hook, claw bar, crank, crow, crowbar, delve, delve into, dig, dig into, direct the eyes, disengage, disjoin, divide, eavesdropper, elevate, explore, fathom, fool with, forage, frisk, fulcrumage, get a foothold, get leverage, go into, go through, gossip, handspike, hoist, hunt, indagate, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, intermeddle, intermeddler, investigate, iron crow, jimmy, kibitz, kibitzer, lever, leverage, lift, limb, look, look around, look into, look round, look through, marlinespike, meddle, meddle with, meddler, mess with, monkey with, mouse, nose, nose around, nosy Parker, outrigger, peavey, pedal, peek, peep, peer, peer into, pick up, pinch bar, play peekaboo, plumb, poke, poke around, poke into, prier, prize, probe, pry into, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, raise, rear, research, ripping bar, root, rubberneck, rubbernecker, scopophiliac, search, search into, search through, separate, sift, sightseer, smell around, snook, snoop, snooper, sound, spar, spy, take a peep, take up, tamper with, treadle, turn, twist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, voyeur, wedge, wrecking bar, yenta

Etymology 1
From pryen:, prien:, from  *undefined:, attested by  bepriwan:. Akin to *undefined:, attested only in combination, compare preowthwil:,  princ:. More at.

Etymology 2
1800, ("lever"), construed as a plural noun or as a 3rd person singular verb.

Verb

 * Catalan: dotorejar
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: scruter, fureter, fouiller
 * Hebrew: חטטנות


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: bisbilhotar, xeretar
 * Russian: подсматривать, выведывать

Noun

 * Dutch: priem, ,
 * Hebrew: מנוף


 * Russian:


 * Dutch: hefboomkracht, ,


 * Hebrew: הנפה

Verb

 * Dutch: priemen,, openwrikken
 * French:


 * Italian: intrudere,effrarre