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MEDDLER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does meddler mean?
• MEDDLER (noun)
The noun MEDDLER has 1 sense:
1. an officious annoying person who interferes with others
Familiarity information: MEDDLER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An officious annoying person who interferes with others
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("meddler" is a kind of...):
persona non grata; unwelcome person (a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meddler"):
backseat driver (a meddler who insists on giving unwanted advice)
busybody; nosey-parker; nosy-parker; quidnunc (a person who meddles in the affairs of others)
buttinsky (a meddler who tends to butt in)
kibitzer ((Yiddish) a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others)
Derivation:
meddle (intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly)
Context examples
“I know you, you scoundrel! I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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