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Definition of Meddler
1. Noun. An officious annoying person who interferes with others.
Specialized synonyms: Backseat Driver, Busybody, Nosey-parker, Nosy-parker, Quidnunc, Buttinsky, Kibitzer
Derivative terms: Meddle
Definition of Meddler
1. n. One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
Definition of Meddler
1. Noun. One who meddles or interferes in something not of their concern. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meddler
1. one that meddles [n -S] - See also: meddles
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meddler
Literary usage of Meddler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Apples of Istakhar by William Lindsey (1895)
"But, hopeless all, I scan That face so cold and pitiless; That meddler, Death!
I have run well, yet every span He might have tripped me as I ran; ..."
2. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"... though he furnishes none of my bread and butter, has dared to play me a trick
which those who do furnish it would not dare. THE FATE OF A meddler. ..."
3. John Drew by Edward Augustus Dithmar (1900)
"Mr. Kilroy, the equivalent of the French meddler with pathological ideas, could
have found no better representative on our stage than Drew, ..."
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