Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no personal or proper concern; an officious person; a busybody.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who meddles or interferes in something not of their concern.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an officious annoying person who interferes with others

Etymologies

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meddle +‎ -er

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Examples

  • So a process that involves such meddling by a competent meddler is conceivable but I do not believe that natural forces alone would generate cells on a lifeless planet.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • So a process that involves such meddling by a competent meddler is conceivable but I do not believe that natural forces alone would generate cells on a lifeless planet.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • Like Scrappy-Doo and Jar Jar Binks before him, this annoying elfin meddler deserves the slow, horrible death owed to such characters everywhere.

    Which Harry Potter Character Gets Whacked? 2005

  • Like Scrappy-Doo and Jar Jar Binks before him, this annoying elfin meddler deserves the slow, horrible death owed to such characters everywhere.

    Which Harry Potter Character Gets Whacked? 2005

  • This radical bitch — the difficult meddler from the beginning — just called me and tried to speak for the whole gallery.

    2003 May « Magic Lantern Arts 2003

  • This radical bitch — the difficult meddler from the beginning — just called me and tried to speak for the whole gallery.

    just when I was about to have female friends again . . . « Magic Lantern Arts 2003

  • I was ridiculed and my work was called "meddler" "crazy," was pointed at as a fanatic.

    The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation 1905

  • Christopher Jefferies was an eccentric 'meddler', say former tenants

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The İstanbul 2nd Criminal Court of Peace sentenced Ilıcak to a suspended prison sentence of 11 months, 20 days because of remarks in her column on Kaçmaz, whom she called an "işgüzar," which means "meddler," after he made a controversial ruling against the president.

    TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News ŞULE KULU 2010

  • The İstanbul 2nd Criminal Court of Peace sentenced Ilıcak to a suspended prison sentence of 11 months, 20 days because of remarks in her column on Kaçmaz, whom she called an "işgüzar," which means "meddler," after he made a controversial ruling against the president.

    TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News ŞULE KULU 2010

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