different between intermeddle vs intermeddlesome

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman entremedler (= Old French entremesler), from inter- + medler.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nt??m?d(?)l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??nt??m?d?l/
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Verb

intermeddle (third-person singular simple present intermeddles, present participle intermeddling, simple past and past participle intermeddled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To mix, mingle together. [14^th-18^thc.]
2. (obsolete, reflexive) To get mixed up (with). [15^th-17^thc.]
3. (intransitive) To butt in, to interfere in or with. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     The practice of Spain hath been, […] by war{{..}} and […] by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Book I, Ch.2:

     I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.

Synonyms

• butt in, meddle

English

Etymology

intermeddle +? -some

Adjective

intermeddlesome (comparative more intermeddlesome, superlative most intermeddlesome)

1. Inclined or disposed to intermeddle.