busybody in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

busybody in the PONS Dictionary

busybody Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

he is a busybody
to be an interfering busybody
American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
The song is about a dispute between a workman digging a hole and an officious busybody wearing a bowler hat.
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For this folklore the majority of ordinary people (except perhaps monks) were sympathetic with the white snake and not with the busybody monk.
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There are also some more derisive terms such as buttinsky or busybody.
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Ena was the street's busybody, battleaxe and self-proclaimed moral voice.
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So we heeded the stern warnings from medical professionals, worried relatives and every other interfering busybody.
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Social workers are always caricatured as sandal-wearing interferers; the police as pretty dim and flat-footed and teachers as snotty busybodies.
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Describing himself as the man with the cardigan, his doleful looks ensured that he was usually cast as henpecked husbands, petty officials or interfering busybodies.
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Colleen mainly served as a source of comic relief and acted as the busybody type character.
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He s also a bootlegger and a busybody.
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She can be a high-strung busybody, but for someone so smart, with men she loves, she can go into a mode where she is both babyish and overthinks little things.
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