Definition of busy

What does the word busy mean?

• part of speech: verb transitive

  Occupy (esp. oneself, one\'s hands, eyes, &c.), keep b., (with, in, at, about, or with -ing, or abs.). [old English]

• part of speech: adjective

  Occupied, working, engaged, with attention concentrated, (b. in, with, at; also, prep. being dropped, with vbl n. now looking like part., as he was b. packing); unresting, ever employed, stirring; fussy, meddlesome, prying, mischievous; b. idle (ness), spending energy on trifles; b.-body, meddlesome person, mischief-maker. Hence busily adv. [old English]