Definition of "busybody"

busybody

noun
plural busybodies
1. Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.
  Quotations
  Se that none of you ſuffre as a murtherer / or as a thefe / or an evyll doar / or as a buſybody in wother mens matters.
  1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], 1 Peter iiij:, folio ccxc, verso
  Candidly speaking, I thought her a little busy-body; but her father, blind like other parents, seemed perfectly content to let her wait on him, and even wonderfully soothed by her offices.
  1853 January, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Paulina”, in Villette. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], page 22
  But I couldn’t—and I can’t tell you, either, what it’s meant to me these two years to believe you were going to marry him, and be told every week by some busybody that your engagement was on the point of being announced.
  1915, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Love Takes Up the Glass of Time”, in Anne of the Island, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, page 325
2. A device consisting of three mirrors that, when attached to the wall of a house, allows an occupant to see who is at the front door without a direct line of sight.
verb
third-person singular simple present busybodies, present participle busybodying, simple past and past participle busybodied
1. (intransitive) To meddle or interfere.