Busybodyish
//ˈbɪzibɒdiɪʃ// adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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
More examples"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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