buttinsky
/bʌˈtɪnski/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody.
Derogatory; Informal
noun
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 Sentences
- "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."
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.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bʌˈtɪnski/
- British English: /bʌˈtɪnski/