meddling

English

Adjective

meddling

1. That meddles.

Synonyms

• annoying

Derived terms

• meddlingly
• overmeddling
• unmeddling

Translations

meddlesome — see meddlesome

Noun

meddling (countable and uncountable, plural meddlings)

1. unwanted interference
   • 1835, William Osburn, Doctrinal Errors of the Apostolical and Early Fathers, page 30:

     It had been well, if these dishonest meddlings with existing books had stopped here.

2. An instance of meddling.
   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 27:

     I learned more about it than most people because triffids were my job, and the firm I worked for was intimately, if not very gracefully, concerned in their public appearance. Nevertheless, their true origin still remains obscure. My own belief, for what that is worth, is that they were the outcome of a series of ingenious biological meddlings - and very likely accidental, at that.

Verb

meddling

1. present participle and gerund of meddle

See also

• fair to meddling