Buttinsky
//bʌˈtɪnski// noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a meddler who tends to butt in wordnet
- 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
Example
More examples"I wish I had never met that nosy buttinsky!"
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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