Meaning of BUSYBODY
Pronunciation: | | 'bizee`bâdee
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| Definition: | | [n] a person who meddles in the affairs of others |
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| Synonyms: | | nosey-parker, nosy-parker |
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| See Also: | | meddler | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Bus"y*bod`y\ (-b[o^]d`[y^]), n.; pl. {Busybodies}
(-b[o^]d`[i^]z).
One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of
others; a meddling person.
And not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies,
speaking things which they ought not. --1 Tim. v.
13.
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Thesaurus Terms |
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| Related Terms: | | a tale-bearing animal, backseat driver, butt in, butt-in, buttinsky, eavesdropper, fool, gossip, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger, horn in, informer, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, interfere, interlope, intermeddler, kibitzer, make, meddler, monkey with, mouse, newsmonger, newspaperman, nose, nosy Parker, Paul Pry, peeper, Peeping Tom, poke, pragmatic, pragmatist, prier, pry, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, reporter, rubber, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rumormonger, scandalmonger, scopophiliac, sightseer, snook, snoop, snooper, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tamper with, tattler, tattletale, telltale, tittle-tattler, voyeur, yenta |
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