Meddlesome

Definition: Meddlesome

Meddlesome

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".

Date "meddlesome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Meddlesome

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

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Activity	Meddling; Verb: meddlesome, pushing, officious, overofficious, intrigant.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Meddlesome

English words defined with "meddlesome": Mousing ♦ nose ♦ poke, pry ♦ To monkey with. (references)

Specialty definitions using "meddlesome": Paul Pry, Peace. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest? (Becket; writing credit: Edward Anhalt; Jean Anouilh)
Movie/TV Titles	Meddlesome Mike (1914)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Death of a Meddlesome Man (reference) For lack of a meddlesome preacher (reference) Meddlesome Ghost (Lovers of Steadford Abbey Book 2) (reference) Meddlesome Miranda (reference) The Meddlesome Heiress (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. O, what's the loud uproar assailing Mine ears without cease? 'Tis the voice of the hopeful, all-hailing The horrors of peace. Ah, Peace Universal; they woo it -- Would marry it, too. If only they knew how to do it 'Twere easy to do. They're working by night and by day On their problem, like moles. Have mercy, O Heaven, I pray, On their meddlesome souls! Ro Amil
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"Meddlesome" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Meddlesome" is used about 12 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)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	12	101,599

Language		Translations for "meddlesome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		bemoeisugtig (indescreet), bemoeisiek (indescreet). (various references)

Albanian		ngatërrestar (busybody, intrigant, mischief maker, scandalmonger, schemer, troublemaker). (various references)

Arabic		‏فضولي (busy, busybody, curious, inquisitive, intrusive, nosy, obtrusive, officious, prying), ‏متطفل (obtrusive, parasite, snoop, sponger), ‏متدخل (interfering). (various references)

Bulgarian		който се меси в чужди работи, който бърника, натрапчив (adhesive, compulsive, intrusive, obtrusive, officious, pragmatic, pragmatical, pushy). (various references)

Chinese		多事 (eventful). (various references)

Czech		všeteèný (officious, pragmatic), netaktní (indelicate, indiscreet, insensitive, tactless, thoughtless). (various references)

Dutch		indiscreet (indescreet), bemoeiziek (indescreet). (various references)

Esperanto		maldiskreta, enmiksiĝema. (various references)

Farsi		فضول (Blab, Blabber, Busybody, Inquisitive, Nosey, Nosy, Obtruder, Obtrusive, Officious, Pry, Pryer), مداخله گر (Pryer). (various references)

French		qui touche à tout, qui fourre son nez partout, indiscret, fouineur. (various references)

German		vorwitzig (cheekily, cheeky, curious, forward, inquisitive, pert, pertly). (various references)

Greek		ενοχλητικόσ (annoying, bothersome, importunate, obtrusive, offensive, pesky, plaguy, troublesome, troublous, vexatious, worrisome). (various references)

Hebrew		מתערב (interfering, interloper, meddler). (various references)

Hungarian		alkalmatlankodó (disturber, interfering, intruder, intrusive, meddler, obtrusive). (various references)

Italian		importuno (clamorous, importunate, intrusive, obtruder, obtrusive, officious, pressing, teaser, troublesome), ficcanaso (busybody, dicks, nosey, nosy, peeper, snooper, snuffler). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		世話焼き (a bother, a meddlesome person). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せわやき (a bother, a meddlesome person). (various references)

Pig Latin		eddlesomemay

Portuguese		metido, intrometido (dissatisfaction, nosh, nosy, obtrusive, officious, pragmatism, pushing, pushy, snooper), importuno (annoyer, importunate, inconvenient, intrusive, obtrusive, offing, pester, pestilence, plaguesome, plaguy, rush, unwelcome, worrisome). (various references)

Romanian		care se vârã în toate, bãgãcios (busy body, kibitzer, meddler, nosy, obtrusive, officious, prying). (various references)

Russian		надоедливый (annoying, boring, bothersome, irksome, molestful, pain in the neck, pesky, pestiferous, plaguesome, tiresome). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nametljiv (clingy, importunate, intrusive, obtrusive, officious, suggestive). (various references)

Spanish		entrometido (busybody, interfering, interloper, meddler, meddling, obtrusive, pragmatic, pragmatical, prying). (various references)

Swedish		påträngande (impertinent, importunate, insistent, intrusive), beskäftig (busy, fussy, officious, self-important). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งชอบก้าวก่าย. (various references)

Turkish		müdahaleci, işgüzar (efficient, officious, pragmatic, pragmatical, pragmatist), her şeye burnunu sokan (impertinent, nosy). (various references)

Ukranian		що втручається не в свої справи. (various references)

Welsh		ymyrgar (officious), busnesgar. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	curiosa, curiosae, curiose, curiosius, curiosus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "meddlesome": meddlesomeness, meddlesomenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Meddlesome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Edlestone, Keddleston, Kedlestone, Mandleson, mrddlesome. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "meddlesome" (pronounced me"dulsum)
5	-u l s u m	nettlesome, quarrelsome, troublesome.
4	-l s u m	Balsam, fulsome, wholesome.
3	-s u m	adventuresome, awesome, blossom, bothersome, burdensome, buxom, cataclysm, cumbersome, fearsome, flotsam, foursome, gruesome, gypsum, handsome, hansom, irksome, loathsome, lonesome, Maxim, opossum, possum, ransom, threesome, tiresome, transom, twosome, venturesome, wearisome, winsome, worrisome.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-e-l-m-m-o-s"
	-3 letters: meddles, modeled.
	-4 letters: deemed, demode, demoed, eddoes, meddle, melded, melees, models, modems, molded, seeded, seeled, seemed, seldom, sememe.
	-5 letters: deeds, deems, deled, deles, demes, demos, doled, doles, domed, domes, dosed, lodes, meeds, melds, melee, memes, memos, model, modem, modes, molds, moles, momes, soled.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-e-l-m-m-o-s"
	+4 letters: meddlesomeness.
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