"meddle and make" meaning in English

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      "form": "meddles and makes",
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      "form": "meddling and making",
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      "form": "meddled and made",
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "meddled and made",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1681, Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, London: Richard Chiswell, Part III, Chapter 7, p. 91",
          "text": "For it is accounted a disgrace for the man to meddle or make with those affairs, that properly do belong unto the Woman.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1756, anonymous author, Emily; or, The History of a Natural Daughter, London: F. Noble & J. Noble, Volume I, Book III, p. 205",
          "text": "Hold your foolish Tongue, Mr. Metal, said she, and get you to-bed; have’nt I plague enough with this audacious Slut, do you think, without your meddling and making?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1840, Ellen Pickering, chapter 5, in The Quiet Husband, volume I, London: T.&.W. Boone, page 162",
          "text": "She is the most unquiet person I know; cannot be still—meddles and makes about every thing and every body.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, William Dean Howells, chapter 27, in The Undiscovered Country, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 399",
          "text": "“Nay, I must not meddle or make in this business,” said the Shaker.\n“You did meddle and make in it once,” retorted Ford, unresentfully but inflexibly […]",
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        "To intrude oneself into another person's concerns."
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        "(obsolete, chiefly in the negative) To intrude oneself into another person's concerns."
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        "in the negative"
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          "word": "meddle or make"
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      "form": "meddles and makes",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "meddled and made",
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          "ref": "1681, Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, London: Richard Chiswell, Part III, Chapter 7, p. 91",
          "text": "For it is accounted a disgrace for the man to meddle or make with those affairs, that properly do belong unto the Woman.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1756, anonymous author, Emily; or, The History of a Natural Daughter, London: F. Noble & J. Noble, Volume I, Book III, p. 205",
          "text": "Hold your foolish Tongue, Mr. Metal, said she, and get you to-bed; have’nt I plague enough with this audacious Slut, do you think, without your meddling and making?",
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        {
          "ref": "1840, Ellen Pickering, chapter 5, in The Quiet Husband, volume I, London: T.&.W. Boone, page 162",
          "text": "She is the most unquiet person I know; cannot be still—meddles and makes about every thing and every body.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, William Dean Howells, chapter 27, in The Undiscovered Country, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 399",
          "text": "“Nay, I must not meddle or make in this business,” said the Shaker.\n“You did meddle and make in it once,” retorted Ford, unresentfully but inflexibly […]",
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        "To intrude oneself into another person's concerns."
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        "(obsolete, chiefly in the negative) To intrude oneself into another person's concerns."
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        "in the negative"
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    {
      "word": "meddle or make"
    }
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  "word": "meddle and make"
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