All 7 Uses of
meddle
in
Light in August
- He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted.†
Chpt 1meddle = interfere (in another's affairs or business); or handle (something that shouldn't be handled)
- He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted.†
Chpt 1 *meddling = interfering (in another's affairs or business); or handling (something that shouldn't be handled)
- But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.†
Chpt 1meddle = interfere (in another's affairs or business); or handle (something that shouldn't be handled)
- I ain't going to meddle in what ain't none of my business.†
Chpt 4
- He was already late, because he had had to give them time to get to sleep after all the uproar about the heifer, the uproar which the woman had caused by meddling after it was all over, settled for the night, anyway.†
Chpt 8meddling = interfering (in another's affairs or business); or handling (something that shouldn't be handled)
- 'That's why there is no use in even trying to meddle, interfere.†
Chpt 13meddle = interfere (in another's affairs or business); or handle (something that shouldn't be handled)
- I'll have to get on so I can find me something else to meddle with.'†
Chpt 18
Definition:
interfere (in another's affairs or business)
or:
get involved with something where involvement isn't warranted
or:
get involved with something where involvement isn't warranted