Search for crossword answers and clues
A person who meddles in the affairs of others
Answer for the clue "A person who meddles in the affairs of others ", 8 letters:
busybody
Alternative clues for the word busybody
Word definitions for busybody in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Busybody \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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Busybody (1881–1899), was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won two British Classic Races in 1884. In a racing career which lasted from September 1883 until May 1884 she ran six times and won five races. As a two-year-old in 1883 she won ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"meddlesome person," 1520s, from busy (adj.) in the otherwise-obsolete sense "prying, meddlesome" + body "person."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome. n. Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I can't believe the number of busybodies who ask me when I'm going to have another baby. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And behind the scenes, playing the role of bureaucratic busybody , was Joe Alsop. ▪ But busybody bureaucrats ...
Usage examples of busybody.
Slanderer, the Busybody, and the Lawmonger, have broken out of their prisons and got free.
The Huntress, the Swaggerer, the Rogue, on the one hand, and on the other, the Slanderer, the Lawmonger and the Busybody - a mixture would make devils reach.
And Tante Lulu, the old busybody, the instigator of this whole mess, was there, too.
That nasty old busybody mother of his needs to keep her nose in her own business.
First Stephen, then Faith Cornwell and every other meddling busybody in Portsmouth, now this man.
Of course, Worthington would have to be sent on holiday again for them to have enough privacy, but Kendrick had the feeling the old busybody would find traveling much too much to his liking to protest being sent away again.
Mozart is over so no old busybody will be sneaking up the steps to the choir room and eavesdropping on private conversations.
Harriet, was a busybody, but she was nice to Avery, and so Carrie put up with her occasionally butting into family business.
Hoag, what does it matter to him, or to busybodies and wagging tongues in Yokohama?
They could ease the passage of a terrified passenger lifter, or ensure that nosy busybodies were made into asteroid sandwich, but he enjoyed the spectacle of seeing something as big and vain as the Time-span negotiating this potentially fatal dance.
Remi foresaw no way to avoid exchanging Net codes with this character, which in turn would lead to a meeting in some dark place, with no neighborhood watch busybodies to interfere.
There were enough busybodies who gave the two men grief about playing checkers on a Sunday.
The busybodies in this town would never stop talking if they could see you now.
The Egyptian meteorologist acted like a busybody, moving from person to person, pointing out small empty lockers for stowing equipment.
While he had been here in this same hospital with the delirious Sub-Lieutenant Napier, some busybody had noticed in his paybook that one of his inoculations was out of date.