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what do we call a person who interrupts others by visiting them the time they do not expect him to be there
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The person who does the visiting "drops in". The word "interloper" comes to mind also.
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Maybe "inopportune"; "ill-timed." If he/she is not expected but showing up anyway, he/she is a person without sense of what's correct.
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a varan
Hmmm - not in English. A varan is any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia
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intruder is the right one in this kind of situations.
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