busybodyish

adj
/ˈbɪzibɒdiɪʃ/UK

Etymology

From busybody + -ish.

  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 busybodyish — “busybody + ish

Definitions

  1. Like a busybody

    Like a busybody; interfering, meddling.

    • It is not busybodyish changes in the Regulations that we need—half-and-half attempts, say, to do away with territorial designations, and then just as half-and-half restorations of them, and such other meddlesome busybodyish humbug as that.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for busybodyish. 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