Officious

“Officious” (uh-FISH-us) – from the Latin for “a sense of duty” – is another way of saying “meddlesome.”

Example (as used by Ken Follett in Code to Zero): “The guy was an officious twerp, but Luke and Pete were vagrants, and a railroad employee had the right to throw them out.”

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