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/mˈɛdəlɪŋ/ /mˈɛdlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Meddle v. t. To mix; to mingle. (Obs.) ""Wine meddled with gall.""

Meddle v. i. (past & past part. meddled; pres. part. meddling)

To mix; to mingle. (Obs.) "More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts."

To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; in a good sense. (Obs.) "Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business."

To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; often followed by with or in. "Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt?" "The civil lawyers... have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them."

To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. (Archaic)

Synonyms: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.

adjective

Meddling adj. Meddlesome.

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Etymology of 'Meddling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Meddling" Quotes from Famous Books

... Earnely[54] and Aylesbury[55] with all that race Of busy blockheads, shall have here no place; At council set as foils on Danby's[56] score, To make that great false jewel shine the more; Who all that while was thought exceeding wise, Only for taking pains and telling lies. But there's no meddling with such nauseous men; 80 Their very names have tired my lazy pen: 'Tis time to quit their company, and choose Some fitter subject ...

— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol I - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden

... Dr. Howe said, when, the business over, he rose to go, "this den of yours is cold!" He stooped to shake the logs in the small stove, hoping to start a blaze. The rector would have resented any man's meddling with his fire, but all Mr. Denner's friends felt a sort of responsibility for him, which he accepted ...

— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland

... show no small degree of skill and hardihood, and must not too closely count the risk to life or limb. Bears differ widely in temper, and occasionally one may be found who will not show fight, no matter how much he is bullied; but, as a rule, a hunter must be cautious in meddling with a wounded animal which has retreated into a dense thicket, and had been once or twice roused; and such a beast, when it does turn, will usually charge again and again, and fight to the last with unconquerable ferocity. The short distance at ...

— Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches • Theodore Roosevelt

... heed how he behaves. If he persists in saying to me what he likes, he'll be hearing things that he don't like. Am I meddling with these matters or interesting myself? Can you not endure your troubles with a patient mind? For as to what I say, whether it is true or false what I have heard, can soon be known. A certain man of Attica, a ...

— The Comedies of Terence - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes • Publius Terentius Afer, (AKA) Terence

... I'll take good care of that. And don't fancy I'm fond of meddling with other people's affairs. But this is a case in which I ought to do ...

— The Seaboard Parish Vol. 2 • George MacDonald

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