You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied
(adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; “an interfering old woman”; “bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself”; “busy about other people’s business”
meddling, tampering
(noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
meddling
That meddles.
• annoying
meddling (countable and uncountable, plural meddlings)
unwanted interference
meddling
present participle of meddle
Source: Wiktionary
Med"dling, a.
Definition: Meddlesome. Macaulay.
Med"dle`, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Meddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Meddling.] Etym: [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F. mĂŞler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. Mix, and cf. Medley, Mellay.]
1. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. Shak.
2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- [Obs.] Barrow. Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. Tyndale.
3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in. Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt 2 Kings xiv. 10. The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. Locke. To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. [Archaic] Shak.
Syn.
– To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.
Med"dle, v. t.
Definition: To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] Chaucer. "Wine meddled with gall." Wyclif (Matt. xxvii. 34).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 October 2024
(adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; “dateless customs”
You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.