intermeddlern.
/ɪntəˈmɛdlə/ One who intermeddles.† a. One who concerns himself or has to do with something. Obsolete in gen. sense.† b. An intermediary. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > one who engages in an activity or occupation > one who concerns himself with
intermeddler1576
pedlar1593
trader1613
1576 Humphrey Let. to Ld. Burghley in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) I. App. xxviii. 518 Wherin I was no open intermedler, but only a private solicitor.
?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing To Rdr. sig. av When they shal come to be Citizens, and intermedlers in matters of the common welth.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > intermediate means > person as
dealerc1000
meanc1384
mediatorc1390
moyen1455
intermediator1522
broker1530
middlera1533
intercessor1554
mercury1602
intermedial1605
transactor1611
interdealer1613
intermeddler1630
intercommuner1638
middleman1648
second hand1655
inter-agent1728
intermediary1791
in-between1815
medium1817
intermediate1879
come-between1919
tolkach1955
1630 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Wisdome (1658) 49 It is the great Intermedler and Huckster, by it we traffick.
1886 Law Times 80 168/2 Before that time attorneys-at-law were not recognised as legal intermeddlers.
c. spec. One who meddles or interferes with what is none of his business; a meddler; in early use = interloper n.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > petty or sordid > intrusive or unlicensed trader
interloperc1590
straggler1598
intermeddler1601
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] > interference or meddling > one who
meddlerc1450
intermeddler1601
intermitter1611
interferer1803
meddle-come1857
fiddler1952
1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 11 With an expresse restraint of all Straglers and Entermedlers, that might disturbe, or impeach their trade.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Entremetteur,..an intermedler, or dealer in other mens causes, or controuersies.
1699 R. L'Estrange Fables (ed. 3) I. 375 There's hardly a greater pest to government and families, than officious tale-bearers, and busy intermeddlers.
1702 Eng. Theophrastus 130 Busy bodies and intermeddlers are a dangerous sort of people to have to do withal.
1876 W. Black Madcap Violet xxv. 236 You know, Violet, what intermeddlers get as a rule.
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