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Word of the Day for Monday, October 6, 2008 officious \uh-FISH-uhs\, adjective: 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. Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for officious Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
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