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English
Etymology
From meddle + -some.
Pronunciation
Adjective
meddlesome (comparative more meddlesome, superlative most meddlesome)
- Characterized or marked by meddling; inclined or having a tendency to meddle or interfere in other people's business.
If those meddlesome kids hadn't turned me in, I'd have gotten away with my nefarious scheme!
1953 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 395:As this was well before the meddlesome days in which we now live, can Mr. Cox explain why this plan was never carried out?
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 , New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
Synonyms
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Translations
inclined to meddle or interfere
- Arabic: متطفل
- Bulgarian: натрапчив (bg) (natrapčiv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 愛管閒事 / 爱管闲事 (zh) (àiguǎnxiánshì), 好事 (zh) (hàoshì)
- Czech: šťouravý, všetečný (cs), dotěrný
- Danish: nævenyttig
- Dutch: bemoeizuchtig (nl)
- Finnish: tunkeileva (fi)
- French: importun (fr)
- German: aufdringlich (de), lästig (de), vorwitzig, zudringlich (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: πολυπράγμων (poluprágmōn)
- Japanese: おせっかいな (osekkai na)
- Macedonian: на́траплив (nátrapliv), на́метлив (námetliv)
- Maori: maikutu, āmionga
- Portuguese: enxerido (pt), intrometido (pt)
- Russian: надоедливый (ru) (nadojedlivyj)
- Spanish: entrometido (es), shute, metiche (es), entremetido (es), entrometido (es), meterete (es), metijón, meticón, safrisco, entrépito (es), metichi (Latin America), metiches, intrusete
- Thai: ชอบยุ่ง (chɔ̂ɔp-yûng), ชอบก้าวก่าย (chɔ̂ɔp-gâao-gàai), จุ้นจ้าน, สอดรู้สอดเห็น (sɔ̀ɔt-rúu-sɔ̀ɔt-hěn), ขี้เสือก (vulgar)
- Turkish: işgüzar (tr), müdaheleci
- Ukrainian: нахабний (naxabnyj)
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