meddlesome mat·tie \-ˈmad.ē\noun (-s) Usage: usually capitalized both Ms Etymology: after Meddlesome Matty, subject of a poem of the same name by Ann Taylor died 1866 American writer : busybody, meddler < when men insist that morality is more than that, they are quickly denounced, in general correctly, as Meddlesome Matties — Walter Lippmann >