MEDDLING

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

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Adjective

meddling

That meddles.

Synonyms

• annoying

Noun

meddling (countable and uncountable, plural meddlings)

unwanted interference

Verb

meddling

present participle of meddle

Source: Wiktionary

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Med"dling, a.

Definition: Meddlesome. Macaulay.

MEDDLE

Med"dle`, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Meddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Meddling.] Etym: [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F. mêler, 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

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