buttinsky
2 synonyms for buttinsky, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — (informal) Someone who keeps interrupting or interfering where they are not wanted.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
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 fo...
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