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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person who meddles or pries into the affairs of others.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A meddling person; one who officiously or impertinently concerns himself with the affairs of others.

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

  • noun One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.

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

  • noun Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.

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

  • noun a person who meddles in the affairs of others

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