6 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
noun a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
verb play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
verb intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
originFrom Middle French temprer (“to temper, mix, meddle”). Doublet of temper.
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