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‖ ardelio, -on Obs.
[a. L. ardelio, f. ardēre to burn, be eager or zealous. Cf. F. ardélion.]
A busybody, meddler; ‘one that hath an oare in others boates’ (Florio).
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. vii, Striving to get that which we had better be without, ardelios, busybodies as we are. 1653Urquhart Rabelais iii. xx, What is it that this Polypragmonetick Ardelione..doth aim at? |