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Busybodied

Definition: Busybodied

Busybodied

Adjective

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Busybodied

Synonyms: busy (adj), interfering (adj), meddlesome (adj), meddling (adj), officious (adj). (additional references)

Anagrams: Busybodied

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-d-d-e-i-o-s-u-y"
	-3 letters: buddies, disobey, dobbies.
	-4 letters: bodied, bodies, boused, buboed, buboes, buoyed, busboy, busied, dibbed, didoes, diodes, disbud, dobies, doused, dubbed, sobbed, subbed, subdeb.
	-5 letters: biddy, bided, bides, boded, bodes, bouse, bousy, buddy, buoys, busby, bused, didos, diode, dobby, dobie, dosed, douse, dudes, eidos, obeys, sided, soddy, youse.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-d-d-e-i-o-s-u-y"
	+2 letters: bodybuilders.
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Alternative Orthography: Busybodied

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 75 73 79 62 6F 64 69 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-... ..- ... -.--. -... --- -.. .. . -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110101 01110011 01111001 01100010 01101111 01100100 01101001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#115 &#121 &#98 &#111 &#100 &#105 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 0073 0079 0062 006F 0064 0069 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36878591688170757170

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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