late 14c., "practitioner," agent noun from meddle (v.). Meaning "one who interferes with things in which he has no personal or proper concern, a nuisance" is mid-15c.
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medal
medalist
medallion
meddle
meddler
meddlesome
meddling
Mede
Medea
medevac
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