busybody

Speech parts

1. busybody - Noun

2. busybody - Verb

Meaning

One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

meddler kibitzer quidnunc nosey-parker jay barker cicero snoop tabby prater peeping tom mix in snook telltale magpie
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Antonyms

pressman spectator author journalist reporter newsman
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Hypernyms

meddler

Phrases with the word

flagrant busybody be a busybody general busybody

Derivatives

busybodies

Examples

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career. George Takei

Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. Marcus Aurelius

Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody. Vilfredo Pareto

I am sick of the governessy attitude of our age, which is coming to be more genuinely presumptuous, nosier and more busybody than the Victorian. Elizabeth Bowen

A busybody is always malevolent. Latin Proverb

Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Mary Drone has God to give and bring to her. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

busy worker busy-ness busybodied busybodying busybodyish busybodyism