Both Uses of
officious
in
The Winter's Tale
- You, sir, come you hither: You that have been so tenderly officious With Lady Margery, your midwife, there, To save this bastard's life,—for 'tis a bastard, So sure as this beard's grey,—what will you adventure To save this brat's life?†
Scene 2.3officious = too eager to tell others what to do
- I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit to shore them again, and that the complaint they have to the king concerns him nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far officious; for I am proof against that title, and what shame else belongs to't.†
Scene 4.4 *
Definition:
too eager to tell others what to do -- often regarding unimportant matters