But I couldn't—and I can't tell you, either, what it's meant to me these two years to believe you were going to marry him, and be told every week by some busybody that your engagement was on the point of being announced.
disapproval If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs. This government is full of interfering busybodies. busybodies someone who is too interested in other people's private activities - used to show disapproval