Found 4 hits - Term: meddling, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meddle \med"dle`\, v. i. imp. p. p. meddled; p. pr. vb.
n. meddling. oe. medlen to mix, of. medler, mesler, f.
m^eler, ll. misculare, a dim. fr. l. miscere to mix.
root271. see mix, and cf. medley, mellay.
1913 webster
1. to mix; to mingle. obs.
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more to know
did never meddle with my thoughts. --shak.
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2. to interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- in a
good sense. obs. --barrow.
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study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own
business. --tyndale.
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3. to interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or
impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly
with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub
another's property without permission; -- often followed
by with or in.
1913 webster
why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? --2 kings xiv.
10.
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the civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter
that belongs not to them. --locke.
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to meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another
person's concerns. archaic --shak.
1913 webster
syn: to interpose; interfere; intermeddle.
1913 webster
see also:
meddled meddling mix medley mellay to meddle and make
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meddling \med"dling\, a.
meddlesome. --macaulay.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
meddling
adj : intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering
old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an
officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other
people's business" syn: interfering, meddlesome, officious,
busy, busybodied
n : the act of altering something secretly or improperly syn: tampering
see also:
interfering meddlesome officious busy busybodied tampering
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
25 moby thesaurus words for "meddling":
busy, busybody, butting-in, forward, forwardness, impertinence,
impertinent, inquisitive, inquisitiveness, intermeddling,
intrusiveness, meddlesome, meddlesomeness, nosy, obtrusiveness,
officious, officiousness, presumption, presumptuous,
presumptuousness, prying, pushing, pushy, self-appointed, snoopy
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