meddlesome mattie

meddlesome mattie
\\-ˈmad.ē\ noun (-s)
Usage: usually capitalized both Ms
Etymology: after Meddlesome Matty, subject of a poem of the same name by Ann Taylor died 1866 American writer

when men insist that morality is more than that, they are quickly denounced, in general correctly, as Meddlesome Matties — Walter Lippmann


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