Busybody

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Busybody \Bus"y*bod`y\ (-b[o^]d`[y^]), n.; pl. {Busybodies}
     (-b[o^]d`[i^]z).
     One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of
     others; a meddling person.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           And not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies,
           speaking things which they ought not.    --1 Tim. v.
                                                    13.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  busybody
       n : a person who meddles in the affairs of others [syn: {nosy-parker},
            {nosey-parker}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "busybody":
     Paul Pry, Peeping Tom, a tale-bearing animal, backseat driver,
     butt in, butt-in, buttinsky, eavesdropper, fool, gossip,
     gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger, horn in, informer,
     inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, interfere, interlope,
     intermeddler, kibitzer, make, meddler, monkey with, mouse,
     newsmonger, newspaperman, nose, nosy Parker, peeper, poke,
     pragmatic, pragmatist, prier, pry, querier, querist, questioner,
     quidnunc, reporter, rubber, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rumormonger,
     scandalmonger, scopophiliac, sightseer, snook, snoop, snooper,
     tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tamper with, tattler, tattletale,
     telltale, tittle-tattler, voyeur, yenta