busybody
Uninvited advice-giver
A busybody is someone who pries into or meddles in other people's affairs.
The word carries disapproval—busybodies offer unsolicited advice, spread gossip, and insert themselves where they don't belong: The neighborhood busybody always knows who's visiting whom.
The busy- prefix suggests misplaced energy, someone occupied with everyone's business but their own.
One who interferes uninvited
- interloperOne who enters uninvited
- buttinskyIntrusive meddler in others' affairs
- intermeddlerOne who interferes uninvited
- kibitzerOne who meddles uninvited
marplot · officious · intrusive · prying · snooper · snoop · encroaching · tampering
Eager to learn more
- curiousEager to learn
- pryingIntrusively inquisitive
- eavesdropperOne who listens secretly
- peepingLooking through cracks
rubberneck · overcurious · probing · questioning · snooping · spying · voyeuristic · watchful
One who spreads rumors
- rumormongerOne who spreads unverified talk
- scandalmongerSpreader of shameful rumors
- talebearerOne who spreads rumors
- tattlerOne who reveals secrets
yenta · blabbermouth · newsmonger · gossipmonger · tittle-tattle · hearsay · whisper · chitchat
meddler
One who interferes uninvited
- interloperOne who enters uninvited
- buttinskyIntrusive meddler in others' affairs
- intermeddlerOne who interferes uninvited
kibitzer · marplot · officious · intrusive · prying · snooper · snoop · encroaching · tampering · interfering
inquisitive
Eager to learn more
- curiousEager to learn
- pryingIntrusively inquisitive
- eavesdropperOne who listens secretly
peeping · rubberneck · overcurious · probing · questioning · snooping · spying · voyeuristic · watchful · scrutinizing
gossiper
One who spreads rumors
- rumormongerOne who spreads unverified talk
- scandalmongerSpreader of shameful rumors
- talebearerOne who spreads rumors
tattler · yenta · blabbermouth · newsmonger · gossipmonger · tittle-tattle · hearsay · whisper · chitchat · tattle
tattletale
One who informs on others
squealer · rat · fink · talebearer · telltale · stool pigeon · informant · betrayer · canary · leaker
- blabbermouthsblabbermouth, gossipmonger, rumormonger, scandalmonger, talebearer
- judgmental typesmoralist, moralizer, prig, prude, puritan
- annoying peoplepest, hecklers, nuisance, meddlers, bore
- compound slangairhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, dimwit
- difficult peopleegomaniac, egotist, nitpicker, drama queen, control freak
- gossiprumor, rumors, gossip, hearsay, whisper