busybodyish

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UK/ˈbɪzibɒdiɪʃ/

adjective

Like a busybody; interfering, meddling.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adjectivebusybodyish (comparative more busybodyish, superlative most busybodyish)

comparative more busybodyish · superlative most busybodyish

  1. Like a busybody; interfering, meddling.

    It is not busybodyish changes in the Regulations that we need—half-and-half attempts, say, to do away with territorial designations, and then just as half-and-half restorations of them, and such other meddlesome busybodyish humbug as that.

    1905, “Talks with Soldiers”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 299, page 570

Origin

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Chicago

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