BUSYBODIES

Domain	Title
Books	Busybodies (reference) Busybodies, Meddlers, and Snoops: The Female Hero in Contemporary Women's Mysteries (Contributions in Women's Studies, No. 166) (reference) Little Busybodies Paper Dolls in Full Color: The Classic Series (reference) The Food & Drink Police: America's Nannies, Busybodies & Petty Tyrants (reference) The Pleasure Police: How Bluenose Busybodies and Lily-Livered Alarmists Are Taking All the Fun Out of Life (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: BUSYBODIES

"BUSYBODIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BUSYBODIES" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: BUSYBODIES

Modern Translation: BUSYBODIES

Language		Translations for "BUSYBODIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Wichtigtuer (bumble, busybody, pompous ass, snob, stuffed shirt). (various references)

Pig Latin		usybodiesbay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Bible Trace: BUSYBODIES

Language	Date	Source	2 Thessalonian Chapter 3, Verse 11
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Akouomen gar tinaV peripatountaV en umin ataktwV mhden ergazomenouV alla periergazomenouV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Audimus enim inter vos quosdam ambulare inquiete nihil operantes sed curiose agentes
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For we han herd that summe among you goon in reste, and no thing worchen, but don curiousli.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	We have hearde saye no doute that ther are some which walke amonge you inordinatly and worke not at all but are besy bodies.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For we hear that there are some who walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy-bodies.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.
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Matched Bible Translations: BUSYBODIES

Language	2 Thessalonian Chapter 3, Verse 11
Chinese	� 我們聽說、在 � 們中 �" 有人不按規矩而行、 �"� 麼工都不作、反 �' 專管 �' 事。
Hungarian	Mert halljuk, hogy némelyek rendetlenül élnek közületek, a kik semmit nem dolgoznak, hanem nyughatatlankodnak.
Russian	оП УМЩЫЙН, ЮФП ОЕЛПФПТЩЕ Х ЧБУ � ПУФХ� БАФ �'ЕУЮЙООП, ОЙЮЕЗП ОЕ �"ЕМБАФ, Б УХЕФСФУС.
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Anagrams: BUSYBODIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-i-o-s-s-u-y"
	-2 letters: disobeys.
	-3 letters: busbies, busboys, disobey, dobbies, soubise, subdebs, subside, subsidy.
	-4 letters: bodies, bossed, boused, bouses, buboed, buboes, buoyed, busboy, busied, busies, bussed, disuse, dobies, douses, issued, sobbed, soused, subbed, subdeb, syboes.
	-5 letters: bides, bises, bodes, bossy, bouse, bousy, buoys, busby, bused, buses, byssi, dobby, dobie, doses, douse, eidos, issue, obeys, sibbs, sides, souse, sudsy.
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