busybody
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noun \ˈbi-zē-ˌbä-dē\Definition of BUSYBODY
: an officious or inquisitive person
See Examples of BUSYBODY
- The neighborhood busybody is telling everyone that the couple up the street is getting divorced.
- <that busybody across the street is always telling me how to tend to my own garden>
First Known Use of BUSYBODY
1526
Related to BUSYBODY
- Synonyms
- buttinsky (also buttinski), interferer, interloper, intermeddler, intruder, kibitzer (also kibbitzer), meddler, nosey parker [chiefly British]
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