busybody
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Busybody \Bus"y*bod`y\ (-b[o^]d`[y^]), n.; pl. {Busybodies}
(-b[o^]d`[i^]z).
One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of
others; a meddling person.
[1913 Webster]
And not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies,
speaking things which they ought not. --1 Tim. v.
13.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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