单词 | busybodyism |
释义 | busybodyismn. Behaviour characteristic of a busybody; acting as a busybody, meddling. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] > being a busybody or officiousness businessa1466 busyty?1530 stickling1589 polypragmony1602 polypragmosyne1607 over-officiousnessa1610 officiousness1613 pragmaticalness1626 busybodyness1642 busybodying1824 busybodyism1828 pantopragmatics1860 superserviceableness1869 polypragmatism1890 1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 23 129 Curiosity..and a habit of busybodyism. 1842 E. A. Poe Myst. Marie Rogêt in Ladies' Compan. Dec. 96/1 The..circumstances..will be found to tally much better with my hypothesis of romantic busy-body-ism than with the reasoner's suggestion of guilt. 1895 Labour Ann. 98 The narrow, pettifogging busybodyism of a little Social-Democratic State. 1922 S. Dark Outl. Wells vi. 119 [Wells was] a believer in government by the..efficient so long as the evils of bureaucratic busybodyism were avoided. 1994 J. Malcolm Silent Woman i. i. 9 The voyeurism and busybodyism that impel writers and readers of biography. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1828 |
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