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An officious meddler whose interference compromises the success of an undertaking.
[After Marplot, a character in The Busy Body, a play by Susannah Centlivre (1669-1723).]
from thefreedictionary.com
Quite a good natural sounding word isn't it? I wonder who Susannah Centlivre was. I stumbled on this word in Little Women as I'm rereading it now.
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