busy /bizˈi/

1. Fully employed
2. Active
3. Diligent
4. Meddling
5. Fussily active
6. (of a telephone line or a room) engaged
7. (of a picture or design) unrestful because it has too much detail

A detective

1. To make busy
2. To occupy

busˈily adverb

busˈyness noun

The state of being busy (see business)

busˈybody noun

1. A person who meddles in others' affairs
2. A mirror at a window arranged to show the street below

intransitive verb

To behave like a busybody

busy Lizzie noun

A popular fast-growing pot-plant of the Impatiens genus, usu with pink or white flowers

busy signal noun (N American)

The engaged tone

• foolhardise
• foolhardize
• foolhardy
• fooling
• foolings
• foolish
• foolisher
• foolishest
• foolishly
• foolishness
• foolishnesses
• foolish-witty
• foolproof
• fools
• fool's cap
• foolscap
• fool's caps
• foolscaps
• fool's errand
• fool's errands
• fool's gold
• fool's mate
• fool's paradise
• fool's paradises
• fool's parsley