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What (who) is busybody - definition
Busybody
![A busybody caricatured by [[Isaac Taylor]] in the 19th century to illustrate the [[character sketch]] by [[Theophrastus]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Busybody.PNG?width=200 "A busybody caricatured by [[Isaac Taylor]] in the 19th century to illustrate the [[character sketch]] by [[Theophrastus]]")
PERSON WHO MEDDLES IN THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS
Officious; Marplot; Meddler; Meddling; The Busybody
·noun One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.
busybody
PERSON WHO MEDDLES IN THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS
Officious; Marplot; Meddler; Meddling; The Busybody
¦ noun (plural busybodies) a meddling or prying person.
busybody
PERSON WHO MEDDLES IN THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS
Officious; Marplot; Meddler; Meddling; The Busybody
(busybodies)
If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs. (INFORMAL)
This government is full of interfering busybodies.
N-COUNT [disapproval]
Wikipedia
Busybody
A busybody, do-gooder, meddler, or marplot is someone who meddles in the affairs of others.
Examples of use of busybody
1. Instead of locking up the busybody who went poking his nose into other people’s paintings, the Modi government arrested the student whose painting the busybody found offensive.
2. Let us give both these sets of busybody gentlemen the benefit of the doubt.
3. Washington, which often is a busybody, is not just being that with NCLB.
4. But in truth it represented a significant victory for the busybody state over our ancient liberties.
5. My thoughtful mother who took such generous interest in other people was now a horribly intrusive busybody.