英语词汇nosey parker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Nosey Parker. Matthew Parker, who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1559, acquired a reputation for poking his nose into other people’s business. Actually, he was an intelligent, if somewhat overzealous, churchman of marked Protestant per- suasion who introduced many administrative and ceremonial reforms into the Anglican Church. His reputation is largely undeserved, but Catholics and Puritans alike resented his good works, taking advantage of his rather long nose and dubbing him Nosey Parker, which has meant an unduly in- quisitive person ever since. Parker had been chaplain to Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII before becoming archbishop. A schol- ar of some note, he died in 1575 aged 71. The above, at least, is the most popular folk etymology for Nosey Parker. But other candidates have been proposed Richard Parker, leader of the Sheerness Mutiny in 1797, is one strong contender. This Park- er poked his nose so deeply into what the military thought their exclusive bailiwick that he wound up hanged from the yardarm of H.M.S. Sandwich on July 30 of that year.

词汇	nosey parker
词源	Nosey Parker. Matthew Parker, who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1559, acquired a reputation for poking his nose into other people’s business. Actually, he was an intelligent, if somewhat overzealous, churchman of marked Protestant per- suasion who introduced many administrative and ceremonial reforms into the Anglican Church. His reputation is largely undeserved, but Catholics and Puritans alike resented his good works, taking advantage of his rather long nose and dubbing him Nosey Parker, which has meant an unduly in- quisitive person ever since. Parker had been chaplain to Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII before becoming archbishop. A schol- ar of some note, he died in 1575 aged 71. The above, at least, is the most popular folk etymology for Nosey Parker. But other candidates have been proposed Richard Parker, leader of the Sheerness Mutiny in 1797, is one strong contender. This Park- er poked his nose so deeply into what the military thought their exclusive bailiwick that he wound up hanged from the yardarm of H.M.S. Sandwich on July 30 of that year.
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