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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Busybody \Bus"y*bod'y\ (-b[o^]d'[y^]), noun; pl. {Busybodies} (-b[o^]d'[i^]z). One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.
And not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. --1 Tim. v. 13.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
busybody
noun: a person who meddles in the affairs of others [syn: {nosy-parker}, {nosey-parker}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "busybody": Paul Pry, Peeping Tom, a tale-bearing animal, backseat driver, butt in, butt-in, buttinsky, eavesdropper, fool, gossip, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger, horn in, informer, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, interfere, interlope, intermeddler, kibitzer, make, meddler, monkey with, mouse, newsmonger, newspaperman, nose, nosy Parker, peeper, poke, pragmatic, pragmatist, prier, pry, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, reporter, rubber, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rumormonger, scandalmonger, scopophiliac, sightseer, snook, snoop, snooper, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tamper with, tattler, tattletale, telltale, tittle-tattler, voyeur, yenta
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