Definitions
To ask nosy questions or lever something open.
Word origin
The noun is probably a back-formation from prise, prize (“tool for levering, lever”), construed as the plural of pry.
Used in a sentence
“[W]omen haue eagles eyes, / To prie euen to the heart, and why not you?”
“[…] to elude, thus wrapt in miſt / Of midnight vapor glide obſcure, and prie / In every Buſh and brake, where hap may finde / The Serpent ſleeping, […]”
“And choice of studious friends had he / Of Bolton's dear fraternity: / […] / [I]n their cells with him did pry / For other lore,—through strong desire / Searching the earth with chemic fire: […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues
01“Snoop”3 letters
02“Lever open”3 letters
03“Ask nosy questions”3 letters
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