busie

Adjective

busy (comparative busier, superlative busiest)

1. Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
   • Be careful crossing that busy street.

   Synonyms:

   heavy, bustling

2. Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
   • The director cannot see you now: he's busy.
3. Having much work to do; having much to get done.
   • Near-synonym: swamped

   Synonyms:

   swamped

4. Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
   • Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
5. Officious; meddling.
   • I will be hanged if some eternal villain,
     Some busy and insinuating rogue,
     Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
     Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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