See busybody on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 1 Peter iiij:[15], folio ccxc, verso:",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "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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"Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome."
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