Related Words:
- busy
collapse - crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
- actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"; "the line is busy"
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
- keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection" related words >
- absorb,
- active,
- arabesque,
- assiduous,
- at it,
- at work,
- attend to business,
- baroque,
- burden,
- bustling,
- busybody,
- chichi,
- complex,
- complicated,
- detailed,
- devote,
- diligent,
- divert,
- drive,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- employ,
- employed,
- energetic,
- engage,
- engaged,
- engross,
- fag,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- florid,
- flowery,
- forward,
- frilly,
- full of business,
- fussy,
- hard at it,
- hard at work,
- hectic,
- high-wrought,
- hustling,
- immerse,
- impertinent,
- in harness,
- industrious,
- inquisitive,
- intricate,
- involve,
- involved,
- keep busy,
- labored,
- lively,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mind the store,
- moresque,
- nosy,
- occupied,
- occupy,
- officious,
- on duty,
- on the go,
- on the hop,
- on the job,
- on the jump,
- on the move,
- on the run,
- oppress,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overdrive,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overtask,
- overtax,
- overwork,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- pass the time,
- picturesque,
- presumptuous,
- pretty-pretty,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- rich,
- rococo,
- self-appointed,
- snoopy,
- soak,
- spend,
- spend the time,
- sweat,
- task,
- tax,
- tied up,
- work,
- working
- a tale-bearing animal,
- babbling,
- betrayal,
- betrayer,
- blab,
- blabber,
- blabberer,
- blabbering,
- blabbermouth,
- blabbing,
- broad hint,
- busybody,
- catchword,
- clack,
- clue,
- communication leak,
- cue,
- cue word,
- dead giveaway,
- delator,
- divulgation,
- divulgement,
- divulgence,
- divulging,
- evidence,
- evulgation,
- fink,
- gentle hint,
- gesture,
- giveaway,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- gossip,
- gossip columnist,
- gossiper,
- gossipmonger,
- hint,
- hot lead,
- implication,
- index,
- indication,
- indiscretion,
- informer,
- inkling,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- intimation,
- key,
- key word,
- kick,
- lead,
- leak,
- letting out,
- look,
- narc,
- newsmonger,
- newspaperman,
- nod,
- notion,
- nudge,
- obvious clue,
- peacher,
- prompt,
- quidnunc,
- reporter,
- rumormonger,
- scandalmonger,
- scent,
- sign,
- signal,
- snitch,
- snitcher,
- spoor,
- spy,
- squealer,
- stool pigeon,
- stoolie,
- suggestion,
- suspicion,
- symptom,
- tabby,
- talebearer,
- taleteller,
- tattler,
- tattletale,
- telltale sign,
- tip-off,
- tittle-tattler,
- trace,
- track,
- unwitting disclosure,
- vestige,
- whiff,
- whisper,
- whistle-blower,
- wind,
- wink,
- yenta
- reporter
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- a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories related words >
- a tale-bearing animal,
- adviser,
- anchorman,
- announcer,
- annunciator,
- authority,
- broadcaster,
- busybody,
- cameraman,
- channel,
- city editor,
- columnist,
- commentator,
- communicant,
- communicator,
- copy chief,
- copy editor,
- copyman,
- copyreader,
- correspondent,
- cub reporter,
- diaskeuast,
- editor,
- editorial writer,
- enlightener,
- expert witness,
- feature editor,
- foreign correspondent,
- gazetteer,
- gossip,
- gossip columnist,
- gossiper,
- gossipmonger,
- grapevine,
- herald,
- informant,
- information center,
- information medium,
- informer,
- interviewee,
- interviewer,
- journalist,
- leader writer,
- leg man,
- managing editor,
- monitor,
- mouthpiece,
- news editor,
- newscaster,
- newsman,
- newsmonger,
- newspaperman,
- newspaperwoman,
- newswriter,
- notifier,
- official spokesman,
- own correspondent,
- paragrapher,
- paragraphist,
- photojournalist,
- press,
- pressman,
- prolocutor,
- prolocutress,
- prolocutrix,
- public relations officer,
- publicist,
- publisher,
- quidnunc,
- radio,
- rapporteur,
- reader,
- reviser,
- rewrite man,
- rewriter,
- rumormonger,
- scandalmonger,
- slotman,
- sob sister,
- source,
- speaker,
- special correspondent,
- spokesman,
- spokeswoman,
- sports editor,
- stringer,
- subeditor,
- tabby,
- talebearer,
- taleteller,
- tattler,
- tattletale,
- television,
- teller,
- telltale,
- tipster,
- tittle-tattler,
- tout,
- voice,
- war correspondent,
- witness,
- yenta
- pry
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- be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
- make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him" related words >
- Paul Pry,
- Paul-Pry,
- Peeping Tom,
- backseat driver,
- bar,
- beam,
- beat the bushes,
- bend the eyes,
- boom,
- burrow,
- busybody,
- cant hook,
- claw bar,
- crank,
- crow,
- crowbar,
- delve,
- delve into,
- dig,
- dig into,
- direct the eyes,
- disengage,
- disjoin,
- divide,
- eavesdropper,
- elevate,
- explore,
- fathom,
- fool with,
- forage,
- frisk,
- fulcrumage,
- get a foothold,
- get leverage,
- go into,
- go through,
- gossip,
- handspike,
- hoist,
- hunt,
- indagate,
- inquirer,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitor,
- intermeddle,
- intermeddler,
- investigate,
- iron crow,
- jimmy,
- kibitz,
- kibitzer,
- lever,
- leverage,
- lift,
- limb,
- look,
- look around,
- look into,
- look round,
- look through,
- marlinespike,
- meddle,
- meddle with,
- meddler,
- mess with,
- monkey with,
- mouse,
- nose,
- nose around,
- nosy Parker,
- outrigger,
- peavey,
- pedal,
- peek,
- peep,
- peer,
- peer into,
- pick up,
- pinch bar,
- play peekaboo,
- plumb,
- poke,
- poke around,
- poke into,
- prier,
- prize,
- probe,
- pry into,
- querier,
- querist,
- questioner,
- quidnunc,
- raise,
- rear,
- research,
- ripping bar,
- root,
- rubberneck,
- rubbernecker,
- scopophiliac,
- search,
- search into,
- search through,
- separate,
- sift,
- sightseer,
- smell around,
- snook,
- snoop,
- snooper,
- sound,
- spar,
- spy,
- take a peep,
- take up,
- tamper with,
- treadle,
- turn,
- twist,
- uphold,
- uplift,
- upraise,
- uprear,
- voyeur,
- wedge,
- wrecking bar,
- yenta
- a tale-bearing animal,
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- busybody,
- city editor,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copy chief,
- copy editor,
- copyman,
- copyreader,
- copywriter,
- correspondent,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- cub reporter,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- diaskeuast,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- editor,
- editorial writer,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- feature editor,
- foreign correspondent,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- gazetteer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- gossip,
- gossip columnist,
- gossiper,
- gossipmonger,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- interviewer,
- journalist,
- leader writer,
- leg man,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- managing editor,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- news editor,
- newsman,
- newsmonger,
- newspaperwoman,
- newswriter,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- own correspondent,
- pamphleteer,
- paragrapher,
- paragraphist,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- pressman,
- prose writer,
- publicist,
- quidnunc,
- reader,
- reporter,
- reviewer,
- reviser,
- rewrite man,
- rewriter,
- rumormonger,
- scandalmonger,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- slotman,
- sob sister,
- special correspondent,
- sports editor,
- storyteller,
- subeditor,
- tabby,
- talebearer,
- taleteller,
- tattler,
- tattletale,
- technical writer,
- telltale,
- tittle-tattler,
- war correspondent,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer,
- yenta
- rubberneck
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- a person who stares inquisitively
- strain to watch; stare curiously; "The cars slowed down and the drivers rubbernecked after the accident" related words >
- Paul Pry,
- Peeping Tom,
- adventurer,
- alpinist,
- astronaut,
- be curious,
- burn with curiosity,
- busybody,
- butt-in,
- buttinsky,
- campaign,
- camper,
- climber,
- comers and goers,
- commuter,
- cosmopolite,
- cruise,
- cruiser,
- dig around for,
- dig up,
- eavesdropper,
- excursionist,
- explorer,
- eye,
- fare,
- gape,
- gaup,
- gawk,
- gaze,
- globe-girdler,
- globe-trot,
- globe-trotter,
- go abroad,
- go on safari,
- go overseas,
- go slumming,
- goer,
- goggle,
- gossip,
- hajji,
- hit the trail,
- inquire,
- inquirer,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitor,
- intermeddler,
- interrogate,
- jaunt,
- jet set,
- jet-setter,
- journey,
- journeyer,
- kibitzer,
- lionize,
- make a journey,
- make a pilgrimage,
- make a trip,
- mariner,
- meddler,
- mountaineer,
- nose around for,
- nose out,
- nosy Parker,
- ogle,
- onlooking,
- palmer,
- passenger,
- passerby,
- pathfinder,
- peer,
- peregrinate,
- pilgrim,
- pilgrimage,
- pioneer,
- pragmatist,
- prier,
- pry,
- querier,
- querist,
- query,
- question,
- questioner,
- quidnunc,
- quiz,
- range the world,
- rubber,
- rubbernecker,
- sailor,
- scopophiliac,
- see the lions,
- see the sights,
- seek,
- sight-see,
- sight-seeing,
- sightseer,
- slummer,
- snoop,
- snooper,
- spectating,
- spectatorial,
- stare,
- straphanger,
- take a trip,
- take the road,
- tour,
- tourer,
- tourist,
- trailblazer,
- trailbreaker,
- transient,
- traveler,
- trek,
- trekker,
- tripper,
- viator,
- visiting fireman,
- voortrekker,
- voyage,
- voyager,
- voyageur,
- voyeur,
- want to know,
- wayfare,
- wayfarer,
- world-traveler,
- yenta
- interfere
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- come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle; "Your talking interferes with my work!" related words >
- antagonize,
- arrest,
- baffle,
- balk,
- bar,
- barge in,
- be antipathetic,
- be inimical,
- beat against,
- block,
- bottle up,
- break in,
- break in upon,
- burst in,
- busybody,
- butt in,
- charge in,
- check,
- clash,
- collide,
- come between,
- conflict,
- conflict with,
- confute,
- contradict,
- contrapose,
- contravene,
- counter,
- counteract,
- counterattack,
- countercheck,
- counterpose,
- countervail,
- counterwork,
- crash,
- crash in,
- crash the gates,
- creep in,
- cross,
- crowd in,
- curb,
- cut in,
- dam up,
- damp,
- dampen,
- delay,
- detain,
- discommode,
- edge in,
- elbow in,
- encroach,
- encumber,
- entrench,
- foil,
- foist in,
- fool,
- frustrate,
- go against,
- go counter to,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- hinder,
- hold back,
- hold in check,
- hold up,
- horn in,
- impede,
- impinge,
- impose,
- impose on,
- impose upon,
- incommode,
- inconvenience,
- infiltrate,
- infringe,
- inhibit,
- insinuate,
- intercede,
- intercept,
- interfere with,
- interlope,
- intermeddle,
- intermediate,
- interpose,
- interrupt,
- intervene,
- intrude,
- invade,
- irrupt,
- keep back,
- keep in check,
- kibitz,
- lock horns,
- make,
- meddle,
- mediate,
- meet head-on,
- militate against,
- monkey with,
- obstruct,
- obtrude,
- oppose,
- oppugn,
- press in,
- push in,
- put on,
- put upon,
- repress,
- resist,
- restrain,
- retard,
- run against,
- run counter to,
- rush in,
- sabotage,
- scotch,
- set back,
- slacken,
- slink in,
- slip in,
- slow,
- smash in,
- sneak in,
- snub,
- squeeze in,
- steal in,
- step in,
- storm in,
- subvert,
- suppress,
- swim upstream,
- tamper with,
- throng in,
- thrust in,
- thwart,
- trammel,
- trench,
- trespass,
- trouble,
- work against,
- work in,
- worm in
- nose
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- a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft); "the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry"
- the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon; "he ducked under the nose of the gun"
- the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals; "he has a cold in the nose"
- a natural skill; "he has a nose for good deals"
- the sense of smell (especially in animals); "the hound has a good nose"
- a symbol of inquisitiveness; "keep your nose out of it"
- a small distance; "my horse lost the race by a nose"
- defeat by a narrow margin
- push or move with the nose
- advance the forward part of with caution; "She nosed the car into the left lane" related words >
- Adamite,
- Paul Pry,
- Paul-Pry,
- antlia,
- aptness,
- beak,
- beezer,
- being,
- bent,
- bib nozzle,
- bill,
- body,
- bow,
- bowsprit,
- breathe,
- breathe in,
- bugle,
- bump,
- busybody,
- butt-in,
- caress,
- cat,
- chap,
- character,
- conk,
- creature,
- customer,
- duck,
- earthling,
- faculty,
- feel up,
- fellow,
- figurehead,
- flair,
- follow,
- follow a clue,
- follow up,
- fondle,
- fool with,
- forecastle,
- foredeck,
- forepeak,
- genius,
- groundling,
- guy,
- hand,
- head,
- homo,
- human,
- human being,
- hunt down,
- individual,
- inhale,
- intermeddle,
- jib boom,
- joker,
- kibitz,
- kibitzer,
- knack,
- knead,
- life,
- living soul,
- man,
- massage,
- meddle,
- meddle with,
- meddler,
- mess with,
- monkey with,
- mortal,
- mouse,
- muffle,
- muzzle,
- nares,
- neb,
- nib,
- nose out,
- nostrils,
- nozzle,
- nuzzle,
- olfactories,
- olfactory area,
- olfactory cell,
- olfactory nerves,
- olfactory organ,
- olfactory pit,
- one,
- party,
- pecker,
- peek,
- peep,
- person,
- personage,
- personality,
- pet,
- poke,
- pragmatist,
- pressure nozzle,
- prier,
- proboscis,
- prore,
- prow,
- pry,
- quidnunc,
- rhinarium,
- rose,
- rosehead,
- rostrum,
- rub,
- rub against,
- rub noses,
- rubberneck,
- run down,
- run to earth,
- scent,
- schnozzle,
- shadow,
- shower head,
- single,
- smell,
- smell of,
- smell out,
- smeller,
- sniff,
- sniff out,
- snitch,
- snook,
- snoop,
- snoot,
- snout,
- snuff,
- snuffle,
- somebody,
- someone,
- soul,
- spray nozzle,
- sprinkler head,
- spy,
- stalk,
- stem,
- stroke,
- tail,
- talent,
- tamper with,
- tellurian,
- terran,
- trace,
- trace down,
- track,
- track down,
- trail,
- trunk,
- whiff,
- worldling
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