Synonyms for busybody
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : biz-ee-bod-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɪz iˌbɒd i |
Top 10 synonyms for busybody Other synonyms for the word busybody
Définition of busybody
Origin :- "meddlesome person," 1520s, from busy (adj.) in the otherwise-obsolete sense "prying, meddlesome" + body "person."
- noun nosy, impertinent person
- Bessie is bigger than I am, but she isn't a busybody at all.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 » by Various
- Maria is the only one that knows, and she says I'm a busybody.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 » by Various
- Some busybody has been reporting my conduct on a certain day.
- Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
- You will give our friends here the impression that I am a busybody.
- Extract from : « Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore » by Pauline Lester
- You'd have married me last fall if some busybody hadn't filled your ears with scandal.
- Extract from : « Quin » by Alice Hegan Rice
- If there is anything I mortally abhor, it is a tattler and busybody.
- Extract from : « Eventide » by Effie Afton
- He is a busybody and always poking his nose in where he has no business.
- Extract from : « The Burgess Animal Book for Children » by Thornton W. Burgess
- She was a busybody, always trying to get somebody into trouble.
- Extract from : « The Tale of Snowball Lamb » by Arthur Bailey
- And as soon as they had passed on Mrs. Woodchuck remarked what a busybody he was.
- Extract from : « The Tale of the The Muley Cow » by Arthur Scott Bailey
- On the instant the matter was clear to me, who have a genius for certain ways of a busybody.
- Extract from : « Friendship Village » by Zona Gale
Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019