ardelioardelionn.
Obsolete.
A busybody, meddler; ‘one that hath an oare in others boates’ (Florio).
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] > being a busybody or officiousness > a busybody
busybody1526
busyhead1555
stiffler1566
Jack-stickler1579
pragmatical1593
polypragmon1596
polypragmonist1609
polypragmist1613
factotum1618
ardelio1624
polypragmatist1631
pragmatic1634
polypragmatic1636
pragmatist1640
stickler1702
gad1756
pantopragmatic1860
butterinsky1902
eager beaver1942
1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) i. ii. iv. vii. 148 Striuing that, to get which we had much better be without, (ardeliones, busy bodies as wee are).
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xx. 169 What is it that this Polypragmonetick Ardelione..doth aim at?
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n.1624- give the razzle-dazzle
- give the razzledazzle
- give the razzmatazz
- give the rein
- give the rein to
- give the reins
- give the reins to
- give the repulse
- give the revolt
- give the right hand
- give the right hand of fellowship
- give the rinky-dink
- give the rinkydink
- give the road
- give the rough edge of one's tongue
- give the route
- give the runaround
- give the rush
- give the sack
- give the screaming habdabs
- give the seed furrow
- give the seed furrow to
- give the sele of the day
- give the shirt off one's back
- give the shits