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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome..
Se that none of you ſuffre as a murtherer / or as a thefe / or an evyll doar / or as a buſybody in wother mens matters.
Candidly speaking, I thought her a little busy-body; but her father, blind like other parents, seemed perfectly content to let her wait on him, and even wonderfully soothed by her offices.
But I couldn’t—and I can’t tell you, either, what it’s meant to me these two years to believe you were going to marry him, and be told every week by some busybody that your engagement was on the point of being announced.
Use busy body when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Busy body means Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome..
Common synonyms include marplot, meddler, kibitzer, nosy parker.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Se that none of you ſuffre as a murtherer / or as a thefe / or an evyll doar / or as a buſybody in wother mens matters.
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