Busybody

Definitions

1. Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.
2. A device consisting of three mirrors that, when attached to the wall of a house, allows an occupant to see who is at the front door without a direct line of sight.

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Examples

“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.”

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