Dictionary

meddling en · ADJ

Meanings

1. That meddles.

Deriveds

overmeddling · meddlingly · unmeddling

Synonyms

annoying

meddling en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) unwanted interference
   • It had been well, if these dishonest meddlings with existing books had stopped here. 1835, William Osburn, Doctrinal Errors of the Apostolical and Early Fathers, page 30:
2. (countable, uncountable) An instance of meddling.
   • 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. 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 27:

Forms

meddling en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of meddle
   form of meddle

Relateds

fair to meddling