meddlesome

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Etymology

From meddle +‎ -some.

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meddlesome (comparative more meddlesome, superlative most meddlesome)

  1. 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.

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