Meddlesome Mattie

noun

Meddlesome Mat·​tie

-ˈmatē

plural -s

: busybody, meddler

when men insist that morality is more than that, they are quickly denounced, in general correctly, as Meddlesome Matties

—Walter Lippmann

Word History

Etymology

after Meddlesome Matty, subject of a poem of the same name by Ann Taylor †1866 American writer

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