[每日] officious (a) 好管閒事的
Word of the Day (Monday October 6, 2008)
officious \uh-FISH-uhs\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/844RI
Marked by excessive eagerness in offering services or advice
where they are neither requested nor needed; meddlesome.
Ian Holm plays a well-meaning but officious lawyer who tries to
make the grieving families sue for damages.
-- John Simon, "Minus Four", National Review, February 9, 1998
The guy was an officious twerp, but Luke and Pete were vagrants,
and a railroad employee had the right to throw them out.
-- Ken Follett, Code to Zero
Why don't you mind your own business, ma'am? roared Bounderby.
"How dare you go and poke your officious nose into my family
affairs?"
-- Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Officious comes from Latin officiosus, obliging, dutiful, from
officium, dutiful action, sense of duty, official employment,
from opus, a work, labor + -ficere, combining form of facere,
to do, to make. It is related to official, of or pertaining to
an office or public trust.
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