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Word of the Day for Monday, October 6, 2008officious \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. The guy was an officious twerp, but Luke and Pete were vagrants, and a railroad employee had the right to throw them out. 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?" 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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