nosy vs peering

nosy

noun
  • A look at something to satisfy one's curiosity. 

verb
  • To pry into something. 

adj
  • Prying, inquisitive or curious in other’s affairs; tending to snoop or meddle. 

  • Having a large or elongated nose. 

peering

noun
  • The act of one who peers; a looking around. 

  • The act of carrying communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. 

How often have the words nosy and peering occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )