Glossary entry

Hindi term or phrase:

फटेबाज़

English translation:

a nosy person / an overly inquisitive person

Added to glossary by acetran
Dec 26, 2015 12:04
8 yrs ago
Hindi term

फटेबाज़

Hindi to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
I am translating a novel and there is a character whom I want to define. The novel is based in Delhi. The line reads, तू बड़ा फटेबाज़ है।
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Jan 3, 2016 10:53: acetran Created KOG entry

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a nosy person / an overly inquisitive person

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Snob

Self explanatory..

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तू बड़ा फटेबाज़ है। = You are damn snob.
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A rough guy

It is commonly used for the person who is very aggressive and very much interested in making broil or dare.
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Naughty

The word naughty can be substituted for such words.
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186 days

over-curious, over interested

It means wanting to discover as much as you can about things, sometimes in a way that annoys the other person.
Example sentence:

Over-curiosity kills!

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