BUSYBODY


Meaning of BUSYBODY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I can't believe the number of busybodies who ask me when I'm going to have another baby.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And behind the scenes, playing the role of bureaucratic busybody , was Joe Alsop.

But busybody bureaucrats on Basingstoke council didn't share this enthusiasm for the old red, white and blue.

He decided to defend slavery as a domestic arrangement that lay beyond the scope of busybodies.

It turned out to be nothing more than a charter for busybodies, lacking muscle and new money.

Paltrow plays a spoiled young busybody who makes a disastrous stab at matchmaking.

The inaccurate information given by all these busybodies didn't help at all.

They wanted to get rid of her because they thought she was an interfering busybody .

To them, she appeared an interfering busybody , a pushy incomer meddling with their heritage.

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