-ˈmad.ē noun
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized both Ms
Etymology: after Meddlesome Matty, subject of a poem of the same name by Ann Taylor died 1866 American writer
: busybody , meddler
when men insist that morality is more than that, they are quickly denounced, in general correctly, as Meddlesome Matties — Walter Lippmann