busybodying

English

Etymology

busybody + -ing

Noun

busybodying (uncountable)

  1. The behaviour of a busybody; interference, meddlesomeness.
    • 1916, Charles Taze Russell, Studies in the Scriptures, volume 6, page 585:
      Nowhere is this admonition against busybodying more important to be remembered than in the Church.
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