| 单词 | meddlesome matty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMeddlesome Matty Meddlesome Matty n. (also Meddlesome Mattie) [allusively, from quot. 1814] British colloquial (a nickname for) a meddlesome person. ΚΠ 1814 A. Taylor & J. Taylor Orig. Poems for Infant Minds (ed. 11) II. 3 (title) Meddlesome Matty.] 1871 Appletons' Jrnl. 30 Dec. 734 ‘Meddlesome Matty!’ cries my sister, with her usual amenity, ‘who asked your opinion?’ 1927 Times 17 Aug. 11/5 My warning was addressed to those who would make of the League ‘a kind of international Meddlesome Matty’. 1938 A. G. Macdonell Autobiogr. of Cad xxi. 259 Every reformer finds his obstructionists... In both cases Meddlesome Matties were to blame. 1960 D. Holman-Hunt My Grandmothers & I iv. 92 Good gracious, child, what a meddlesome matty you are. < as lemmas |
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