Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. interfering, meddlesome.

1873, 1924, 1933, 1943, 1956

cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).

2. cheeky, rude, impertinent.

1942		L. Bennett ‘Buy Somet’ing’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 6: Noh tink me fas’ mah but de way / How fe her head peel aff / She musa had a double dose / A enemy air-craf’.
1999		E. Bunker Mr Blue 371: He had one of the fastest mouths in the Department of Corrections, and it occasionally got him into trouble.