Busybodyish

//ˈbɪzibɒdiɪʃ// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From busybody + -ish.

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