What's the difference between nosh and nosy?

Nosh


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Election day: the key points as they happen with the votes being tallied Read more At the hotel, an aide said at 8.30pm, the Clintons worked on the candidate’s planned remarks, and “noshed a little bit” on a buffet spread that included salmon, roasted carrots, vegan pizza and fries.
  • (2) Still, up for anything food related, I find myself in a central London flat (it’s central London only; of course it is) signing up for Supper in anticipation of some posh nosh without the need for all that tiresome restaurant-going.
  • (3) In addition to the live music, and DJ sets by Zero 7 and Greg Wilson, the festival has an important gastronomic component: L’Enclume’s Simon Rogan, Murano’s Angela Hartnett and Polpo’s Russell Norman will all be helping to prepare Wilderness’s “long table banquets”, with extra nosh by the chefs and bakers of St John.
  • (4) But if advertising authorities banned all inaccurate, arguable or just plain ridiculous language on food packets, our nosh would have to be wrapped, as cigarettes soon will be, in completely blank packaging.
  • (5) This is the woman who noshed off Ian Beale for enough cash to keep her in oven chips for a fortnight.
  • (6) We are going to give the world a ship called NOSH Ukip is proposing to build and equip a naval hospital that wouldn’t carry weapons, but could instead be used to “confirm Britain’s status as a force for good in the world”.
  • (7) It is A: “I need a Thai green curry, sticky rice and can you bring it to me straight away?” Posh nosh: Britain's big appetite for gourmet takeaway Read more Deliveroo is a new business that will bring you food from restaurants – not just any old takeaway , mind – for a £2.50 fee.
  • (8) Which all sounds great, except they have called it “a Naval Ocean-Going Surgical Hospital”, or NOSH for short.

Nosy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since 1977, the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar has been studying, during six surveys, the arboviruses of Nosy-Be area, in the north-west of Madagascar.
  • (2) In that study, assessments of the subjects were carried out with two psychiatric rating scales, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale and Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (BPRS and NOSIE), and two clinical evaluations (psychiatrist and nurse).
  • (3) In a double-blind trial of chlorpromazine and thiothixene conducted with 79 acutely ill, newly hospitalized schizophrenic patients, chlorpromazine and thiothixene were shown to be equally effective in producing meaningful symptomatic improvment over an average period of approximately 3 weeks, as measured by Global Assessments (CGI), BPRS, and NOSIE.
  • (4) We don’t want to just be a nice video player for kids: it’s an incentive for us to really invest in the curriculum in the games, and new features like offline viewing, which we added earlier this year.” Hopster is part of a flurry of British startups exploring digital entertainment for children: there is also digital books store Me Books ; the creativity-focused Night Zookeeper ; and apps and books publisher Nosy Crow to name just three.
  • (5) HVA levels correlated positively with social interest and total positive scores on the Nurses Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (NOSIE-30) and negatively with lassitude and slowness of movements on the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS).
  • (6) And so I set off to do a little detective work of my own, to discover whether Maigret’s Paris, full of squalid, storied hotels with communal bathrooms, apartment buildings with nosy concierges and, most importantly, characterful regional bistros and hyper-provincial bars, could still be found.
  • (7) The predictive value of the NOSIE, a ward behaviour rating scale, was investigated in a group of long-stay patients.
  • (8) Psychometric data were obtained by use of three external-assessment schemes (HAMD, BPRS, and NOSIE) and two self-assessment procedures (TSD, POMS).
  • (9) The factor structure and its invariance of the Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient evaluation (NOSIE) were investigated in a Dutch psycho-geriatric population (N = 247) and compared with those of a short stay psychiatric population (N = 177).
  • (10) Forty schizophrenic patients were rated both by nurses (using the NOSIE) and by themselves on days soon after they had completed a period of activity.
  • (11) Read this interview for more on Nosy Crow’s strategy.
  • (12) Like previous Nosy Crow apps, Jack and the Beanstalk swerves some of the elements of the story: the giant doesn't get killed on-screen, just as the first two little pigs didn't die in the company's first fairytale app – they ran to shelter in the third little pig's house of bricks instead.
  • (13) "I wasn't covered up because I was just basically following the crowd to be nosy … there was all different kinds like: black girls, white boys, vice versa, they was just of all ages, from 14, 15 to big adults … You're in shock really, because … everyone was just starting to smash out the windows of every shop around them.
  • (14) One case of clinical AIDS was diagnosed in 1988 in a Franco-Malagasy subject living in NOSY BE.
  • (15) Clinical examinations were performed by the doctor, using the EACG rating scale (a French version of the Sandoz Clinical Assessment Geriatric scale), and by the nurse, using the NOSIE scale, when patients entered the trial and repeated after 2, 4 and 6 months.
  • (16) Global therapeutic effect was confirmed and illustrated by effects on specific variables (List of Cerebral Symptoms, function test, NOSIE) evaluated by analysis of covariance.
  • (17) GAS, NOSIE, and BPRS scores all showed significant improvement.
  • (18) A stepwise regression analysis showed BPRS Activation and NOSIE Manifest Psychosis to be of significance, the BPRS subscale displaying a positive and the NOSIE subtest a negative partial correlation to SF frequency.
  • (19) It was concluded that most of the NOSIE was cross-culturally robust and relevant to its declared purpose.
  • (20) TRH 600 mug or placebo was administered intravenously on 4 consecutive days in a double-blind cross-over design and the schizophrenic symptoms were scored daily by use of two rating scales (CPRS and NOSIE).