nose around

nose around (something)

to pry into something; to snoop around something. I caught her nosing around my desk. Wally is always nosing around.

to try to discover information Justice Department lawyers started nosing around after they received a complaint from a former employee.

Related vocabulary: sniff out something

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Primitiva	pree-mee-TEE-vah (Spanish)	Spanish, Late Roman
Cyriacus	-	Late Roman
Slade	SLAYD	English (Modern)
Bernike	-	Biblical Greek
Yannis	-	Greek
Leach	[li:tʃ]