[General] busy (v), busy (n)

[vil]

Dear teachers,

Would you be kind enough to give me your considered opinion concerning my interpretation of the expressions in bold in the following sentences?

Don’t busy yourself with this, Frank, this is my affair entirely.

busy (v) = engage, meddle, interest

He looks as a busy.

busy = detective

V.

 

[birdeen's call]

He looks as a busy.

Where does this sentence come from?

 

[vil]

busy = детектив, агент, сыщикHe looks like a busy. — У него внешность детектива.


Jandex English Russian Dictionary

then the police got busy


V.

 

[shroob]

busy = детектив, агент, сыщикHe looks like a busy. — У него внешность детектива.


Jandex English Russian Dictionary


V.

Not a teacher only a native.

'He looks like a busy' is not correct English. Is it possibly a corruption of, 'He looks like a busybody'?

 

[vil]

Hi shroob,

Thank you for your modification.

I was also astonished by my random reading of the mentioned above interpretation.

Thank you again for your kindness.

V.

 

[birdeen's call]

busy = детектив, агент, сыщикHe looks like a busy. — У него внешность детектива.

The word "busy" is not present on the pages you have linked to, nor is the sentence

У него внешность детектива.

As shroob said, "busy" is not a noun.

 

[vil]

«busy»

everyone who has eyes may see the last lines of the link above

There is a very cautionary work of a very famous classic:

The Taming of the Shrew ;-)

V.

 

[birdeen's call]

«busy»

everyone who has eyes may see the last lines of the link above

There is a very cautionary work of a very famous classic:

The Taming of the Shrew ;-)

V.

Am I the shrew? Thank you for providing a proper link. I have done some searching and it seems that it does exist as a piece of very obscure British slang. It also seems that it is spelled "bizzie" by some of its users. The most detailed information I was able to find is here (starting from the second page). The meaning is not mentioned by any major dictionary. The sentence

He looks as a busy.

gets only one hit in Google, that is this thread. BYU corpora don't have a single example of the nominal use of "busy".

 

[Mannysteps]

For the sake of those following this thread, I'd like to add that the use of "get busy" is fine. Unless I'm totally wrong. I think this point needs clarifying.

M.

 

[vil]

Contrary to my normal habit my hobby is discovering of unusual unaccustomed words and phrases which are out of the ordinary and shock the itching ears of the regular diehards.



I stand in awe of every benevolent amendment of my speculations but I am ready to write off as beneath my notice every fiddling criticism even if I hear it from an academic's mouth.


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[birdeen's call]

I stand in awe of every benevolent amendment of my speculations but I am ready to write off as beneath my notice every fiddling criticism even if I hear it from an academic's mouth.

Vil, there is no fiddling, or any other, criticism present in this thread.

 

[Mannysteps]

Nice words! But if they are about my comment I beg you to look back and see that someone less eloquent, say a begginer, might have understood that it would be incorrect to say "get busy", This things happen.

M.

 

[vil]

busy = busybody = nosey parker

Said to have been applied originally as a nickname to a man who spied on courting couples in Hyde Park, London.
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[Mannysteps]

For the sake of those following this thread, I'd like to add that the use of "get busy" is fine. Unless I'm totally wrong. I think this point needs clarifying.

M.

Some less eloquent begginer could get it wrong.

M.

 

[vil]

Hi Mannysteps,

Take it easy!

I may clear the difference between right and wrong. In my humble opinion your words are wholesome cereals without slightest trace of chaff.

V.

 

[Mannysteps]

https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/148975-pompous-words.html

 

[Pokemon]

Contrary to my normal habit my hobby is discovering of unusual unaccustomed words and phrases which are out of the ordinary and shock the itching ears of the regular diehards.




V.

Vil, excuse my being curious, but when you've discovered one, what do you do with it?

 

[bhaisahab]

"He looks like a bizzie" is possible in the Liverpool dialect. I don't think it exists anywhere else. Quite obscure really

 

[vil]

Hi Pokemon,

It’s to be crystal clear that I wouldn’t make the traditional Russian porridge of the mentioned above strange words and phrases thought the irrefutable fact that Russian-English Dictionary and a lot of Study-books are seething with them.

I would like to give preference to receive the competent opinion for their contemporary suitability or repudiation from such one authority as bhaisahab for example as well as from all other experienced teachers and selfless NES’ at the present forum.


V.

 

[Pokemon]

Hi Pokemon,

It’s to be crystal clear that I wouldn’t make the traditional Russian porridge of the mentioned above strange words and phrases thought the irrefutable fact that Russian-English Dictionary and a lot of Study-books are seething with them.


V.

I wonder why you use Russian-English dictionaries. There are a lot of good English-English dictionaries, as well as original English study-books. You could make some nice oatmeal of them.