meddlesome

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   inclined to interfere intrusively in other people's affairs

   A meddlesome neighbor kept questioning every visitor to the building.

Formed from meddle + -some. Meddle came through Old French mesler ("to mix, mingle; interfere"), so the modern adjective preserves the shift from mixing things together to intruding in matters that belong to others.

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