Preguntón

Preguntón
 

I'm an inquisitive person, I'm a busybody. These two adjectives are pointed out by Tomísimo dictionary as translations of preguntón. As I have never used or heard of these English terms, I can't be sure how to use them. In Spanish preguntón hasn't got a very positive connotation. It's not the same as inquisitivo, which may be less colloquial but also more positive.

• Una persona inquisitiva puede ser alguien que hace preguntas fundadas, que está detrás del conocimiento (moleste o no).
• Un preguntón o una preguntona es quien se mete donde no le llaman con preguntas que no debería haber hecho.

Can anyone give me some examples of the use of inquisitive / busybody?
Thanks a lot for your help!

Inquisitive is usually positive. Example: I'm iquisitive. I want to know the
uses of vaya in Spanish.

When a person is inquisitive about another person's personal life, they
become busybodies(the noun) or nosey (an adjective discribing a person who likes to stick their nose in other people's business)

Poli

As Poli has explained busybody is entrometido.

In English busybody has a negative connotation and being inquisitive has a positive connotation. In Spain, perhaps, un preguntón is positive, but in my neck of the woods, a preguntón is perceived as an entrometido/a or a metiche.

A busybody is also considered as a gossip, and as Poli rightly said a nosey person.

She's a very inquisitive person. Whenever she runs into something she doesn't know, she goes to the library and researches it.
That lady's a busybody. All she does is sit around and gossip with her friends.

Examples of translating preguntón.

¿por qué estás de preguntón?
You're sure full of questions-- aren't you?
Why are you being so nosey?
Why are you asking so many questions?

Thanks a lot for all your answers!
I would say ¿Por qué estás tan preguntón? I suppose what you wrote is the common way to say this in Mexico.

You are right if you think un preguntón has not a very positive connotation in Spain.

Thanks everybody for your answers.