Words that rhyme with busybody

  • antibody
    n 1: any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response
  • bawdy
    adj 1: humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language" [syn: bawdy, off-color, ribald] n 1: lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy" [syn: bawdry, bawdy]
  • blocky
    adj 1: resembling a block in shape [syn: blockish, blocky]
  • blotchy
    adj 1: marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots [syn: blotched, blotchy, splotched] 2: marred by discolored spots or blotches; "blotchy skin"
  • bobby
    n 1: an informal term for a British policeman
  • body
    n 1: the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" [syn: body, organic structure, physical structure] 2: a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body" 3: a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake" [syn: body, dead body] 4: an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body" 5: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk, body] 6: a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents" 7: the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency, consistence, eubstance, body] 8: the central message of a communication; "the body of the message was short" 9: the main mass of a thing 10: a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) [syn: soundbox, body] 11: the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted" v 1: invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: body, personify]
  • botchy
    adj 1: poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt" [syn: botchy, butcherly, unskillful]
  • busy
    adj 1: actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch" [ant: idle] 2: overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design" [syn: busy, fussy] 3: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business" [syn: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied] 4: crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport" 5: (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal" [syn: busy, engaged, in use(p)] v 1: keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection" [syn: busy, occupy]
  • choppy
    adj 1: marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose" [syn: choppy, jerky] 2: rough with small waves; "choppy seas"
  • cocky
    adj 1: overly self-confident or self-assertive; "a very cocky young man"
  • copy
    n 1: a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) [syn: transcript, copy] 2: a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing; "she made a copy of the designer dress"; "the clone was a copy of its ancestor" 3: matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials [syn: copy, written matter] 4: material suitable for a journalistic account; "catastrophes make good copy" v 1: copy down as is; "The students were made to copy the alphabet over and over" 2: reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings" [syn: imitate, copy, simulate] 3: reproduce or make an exact copy of; "replicate the cell"; "copy the genetic information" [syn: replicate, copy] 4: make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt" [syn: copy, re-create]
  • de
    n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
  • disembody
    v 1: free from a body or physical form or reality
  • embody
    v 1: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate] 2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify] 3: represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"
  • gaudy
    adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy] 2: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display [syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty] n 1: (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college
  • homebody
    n 1: a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel [syn: stay-at-home, homebody]
  • nobody
    n 1: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity]
  • shoddy
    adj 1: cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist [syn: cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry] 2: of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry- built houses" [syn: jerry-built, shoddy] 3: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices" [syn: deceptive, misleading, shoddy] n 1: reclaimed wool fiber
  • somebody
    n 1: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul]
  • toddy
    n 1: a mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot [syn: hot toddy, toddy]
  • wadi
    n 1: gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season
  • cloggy
    adj 1: (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated" [syn: clayey, cloggy, heavy]
  • d
    adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units [syn: five hundred, 500, d] n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: vitamin D, calciferol, viosterol, ergocalciferol, cholecalciferol, D] 2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five [syn: five hundred, 500, D] 3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: D, d]
  • dea
    n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn: Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA]
  • soddy
    n 1: a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses [syn: sod house, soddy, adobe house] 2: English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956) [syn: Soddy, Frederick Soddy]
  • peabody
    n 1: educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894) [syn: Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody]
  • irrawaddy
    n 1: the main river of Myanmar rising in the north and flowing south through the length of Burma to empty into the Andaman Sea [syn: Irrawaddy, Irrawaddy River]
  • anybody
  • cloddy
  • everybody
  • clotty
  • noddy
  • droddy
  • roddy
  • waddy
  • alodie
  • canady
  • corradi
  • deandrade
  • boddie
  • boddy
  • poddy
  • squaddie
  • swaddy

See also busybody definition and busybody synonyms