Buttinsky

Quick meaning: Buttinsky is a noun meaning (derogatory) One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody.

Meaning

(derogatory) One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody.

More Meanings

1. (telecommunications) 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.

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!

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.

"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."

Word Forms

• buttinskys
• buttinskies
• buttinski

Synonyms for buttinsky

Depending on context, synonyms include butterinsky, kibitzer, meddler, stickybeak, yenta.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include busybody, buttinski, butter, butthead, neb-nose, pragmatic.

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