noun
buttinsky
Buttinsky (noun) means (informal) Someone who keeps interrupting or interfering where they are not wanted.
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1
(informal) Someone who keeps interrupting or interfering where they are not wanted.
"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."
— Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1960)
"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!"
— Sinclair Lewis (1922)
2
A sturdy portable phone with clips, used by engineers to test lines or connect to them temporarily.
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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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What is the meaning of buttinsky?
"buttinsky" (noun) means (informal) Someone who keeps interrupting or interfering where they are not wanted.
What is another word for buttinsky?
Other words for "buttinsky" include kibitzer, meddler.
What are the different meanings of buttinsky?
"buttinsky" has 2 main meanings: 1. (informal) Someone who keeps interrupting or interfering where they are not wanted; 2. A sturdy portable phone with clips, used by engineers to test lines or connect to them temporarily.
