Crossword clues for meddler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meddler \Med"dler\, n. One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "practitioner," agent noun from meddle (v.). Meaning "one who interferes, a nuisance" is mid-15c.
Wiktionary
n. One who meddles or interferes in something not of their concern.
WordNet
n. an officious annoying person who interferes with others
Wikipedia
Meddler (1890–1916) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse who was a leading two-year-old in England and a Leading sire in North America in 1904 and 1906.
"Meddler" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Future Science Fiction, October 1954 with illustration by Virgil Finlay. Dick had submitted many short stories to magazines and made approximately fifteen sales before becoming a client of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency. This was his second SMLA submission, received by SMLA on July 24, 1952. His first SMLA submission was The Builder, received by SMLA on July 23, 1952.
Meddler can refer to:
- a meddler, busybody or marplot
- Meddler (short story), a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick
- Meddler (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse from the early 1900s
- Meddler Island, included in the List of Torres Strait Islands
- "Meddler", a song by August Burns Red from the album Constellations
Usage examples of "meddler".
High Meddler himself, propped up by inobtrusive supports and gleaming with what looked like a generous application of shellac.
But what I learned in the scriptorium is that the scribe is a meddler.
Croi could recover from their surprise, the Earther placed one hand over his heart and swept the other at the figure of the High Meddler.
Elder One, but perhaps some of these beings who were projected here by the primitive meddlers or some of the meddlers themselves stole away my carrier and the third one.
If it was the meddlers, then they might well have taken the carriers back to their own world and time.
The one you serve and observe, Younger One, the old man in York, now, he is of the milieu of the meddlers, and one such as he just might possess the requirements to understand and eventually to even master one of our simple carriers and its capabilities, but those earlier, more backward men and women, no.
Them, for They are as far above us as we are above the meddlers, or even farther.
Amerasu is about to show Simon and the assembled Sithi what the Storm King and Nom Queen are doing, but in stead Utuk'ku herself appears in the Witness and de| nounces Amerasu as a lover of mortals and a meddler.
The cocooning banks were far upriver, beyond the reach of a ship of her draft, but Ophelia was an adept meddler and an avid listener.
Roundly castigated as a dangerous, possibly disloyal meddler, Logan found it impossible to get a fair hearing within the administration.
They cower in gated communities and hill forts, mumbling prayers and cursing the ungodly meddlers with the natural order of things.
If they had not chanced to attend the same seminar, they would doubtless have been introduced by some meddler or other.
On a number of occasions, particularly troublesome meddlers in C-K had been arrested and offered for sale on the open market by the Queen's Advisers.
He may still be only a smart-mouthed meddler, skilled mainly in the minor art of survival, blind as ever the dungeons knew him to the finer shades of irony.
I had heard writers, especially Osano, come back East and curse the studios, call the producers the worst cocksucking meddlers in the world, the studio chiefs the crudest, rudest men this side of the apes, the studios so crooked, overbearing and criminal that they made the Black Hand look like the Sweet Sisters of Charity.