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Buttinsky

//bʌˈtɪnski// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody. derogatory, informal

    "I wish I had never met that nosy buttinsky!"

  2. 2
    a meddler who tends to butt in wordnet
  3. 3
    A robust portable one-piece telephone instrument with clips, used by technicians and lines staff for testing telephone circuits or making a temporary connection to a telephone line. informal

Etymology

From butt in (“to join a conversation or situation in which one is not welcome or invited, interject”) + -sky (a variant of -ski (suffix added to a word, name, or phrase to invoke Russianness, Polishness, or a more general Slavicness)), humorously modelled after Russian surnames, and originally and often used in the form of a surname.

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