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busybodying

noun

Etymology

From busybody + -ing.

  1. derived from *bʰewdʰ-✻ — “to be awake, observe”
  2. inherited from *bodag✻ — “body, trunk”
  3. inherited from bodiġ
  4. inherited from body
  5. compounded as busybody — “busy + body”
  6. suffixed as busybodying — “busybody + ing”

Definitions

  1. The behaviour of a busybody

    The behaviour of a busybody; interference, meddlesomeness.

    • Nowhere is this admonition against busybodying more important to be remembered than in the Church.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for busybodying. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA