buttinsky

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Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/bʌˈtɪnski/
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/bʌˈtɪnski/ · [-ˈɾɪn-]

Definition of buttinsky

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (derogatory, informal)One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody.
    “I wish I had never met that nosy buttinsky!”
    “Well, all right then! If you think I'm a buttinsky, then I'll just butt in!”
    “"Shut up, Garrett. I never," said Mr. Tallboy, extricating himself from Garrett's grasp and giving him a playful punch in the wind, "in my life, met with such a bunch of buttinskis as you are in this department. Nothing is sacred to you, not even a man's business correspondence."”
    “It is never pleasant for a man of sensibility to find himself regarded as a buttinski and a trailing arbutus, and it was thus, I could see at a g., that Wilbert Cream was pencilling me in.”
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noun

  1. (derogatory, informal)One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody.
    “I wish I had never met that nosy buttinsky!”
    “Well, all right then! If you think I'm a buttinsky, then I'll just butt in!”
    “"Shut up, Garrett. I never," said Mr. Tallboy, extricating himself from Garrett's grasp and giving him a playful punch in the wind, "in my life, met with such a bunch of buttinskis as you are in this department. Nothing is sacred to you, not even a man's business correspondence."”
    “It is never pleasant for a man of sensibility to find himself regarded as a buttinski and a trailing arbutus, and it was thus, I could see at a g., that Wilbert Cream was pencilling me in.”
  2. (informal)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.

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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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