Busybody

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses".

Template:Redirect-multiLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Hatnote list' not found.Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.

Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
Script error: No such module "Sister project logo".
Look up busybody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
File:Busybody.PNG
A busybody caricatured by Isaac Taylor in the 19th century to illustrate the character sketch by Theophrastus

A busybody, meddler, nosey parker, or marplot is someone who meddles in the affairs of others.

An early study of this archetype was made by the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus in his typology, Characters, writing that "In the proffered services of the busybody there is much of the affectation of kind-heartedness, and little efficient aid."[1][2][3][4]

Etymology of "marplot"

Susanna Centlivre wrote a successful play, The Busie Body, which was first performed in 1709 and has been revived repeatedly since. It is a farce in which a man called "Marplot" interferes in the romantic affairs of his friends and, despite being well-meaning, frustrates them. The characterisation of Marplot as a busybody whose "chief pleasure is knowing everybody's business" was so popular that he appeared as the title character in a sequel, Marplot. The name is a pun — mar / plot — and passed into the language as an eponym or personification of this type.[5][6]

English law

In English law, the doctrine of locus standi requires a plaintiff to have some connection with the matter being contested. In two cases in 1957 and 1996, Lord Denning ruled that "The court will not listen to a busybody who is interfering in things which do not concern him..."[7][8] Similarly, there is a long-standing rule that a person must have an insurable interest in a property or person that they wish to insure.[9] The "officious bystander" is a metaphorical character in English law, used to determine the implied terms of a contract.

Bible

In the Bible, the word "busybody" is used by Paul the Apostle (1 Timothy 5:13). The root word is Greek, περίεργος (periergos), which may also be translated as a worker of magic or witch.[10] Strong's number for this is G4021.[11]Page Template:Blockquote/styles.css has no content.

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

— 1 Timothy 5:13

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Theophrastus translated by Isaac Taylor (1831), The Characters of Theophrastus
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jeannine K. Brown (2006), "Just a Busybody? A Look at the Greco-Roman Topos of Meddling for Defining Hebrew in 1 Peter 4:15", Journal of Biblical Literature, 125 (3): 549–568, doi:10.2307/27638379, JSTOR 27638379
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jeannine K. Brown (2007), Scripture as Communication, Baker Publishing, p. 202, ISBN 9781585583133
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leo Groarke (2000), Ancient Thoughts on Peacekeepers and Other Busybodies, Rodopi, pp. 127–140, ISBN 9789042015524
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.John O'Brien (2001), "Busy Bodies: The plots of Susanna Centlivre", Eighteenth-Century Genre and Culture, University of Delaware Press, pp. 165–189
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Alan Hager (2009), Encyclopedia of British Writers, Infobase, p. 51, ISBN 9781438108698
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Basant Lal Wadehra (2009), Public Interest Litigation, Universal Law, p. 146, ISBN 9788175347984
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Baron Alfred Thompson Denning (1979), The Discipline of Law, Butterworths, p. 117, ISBN 9780406176042
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jacob Loshin (2007), "Insurance Law's Hapless Busybody", The Yale Law Journal, 117 (3): 474–509, doi:10.2307/20455799, JSTOR 20455799
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Marianne Bjelland Kartzow (2009), "The gossipy widows", Gossip and Gender: Othering of Speech in the Pastoral Epistles, Walter de Gruyter, pp. 150–1, ISBN 9783110215649{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Strong's G4021 (Blue Letter Bible)", Blue Letter Bible
  • Page Template:Sister-inline/styles.css has no content.Script error: No such module "Sister project logo". Media related to Script error: No such module "Commons link". at Wikimedia Commons
Retrieved from "https://cosmopedia.co/index.php?title=Busybody&oldid=8029634"