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/bʌˈtɪnski/ · noun
(derogatory) 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.
Use buttinsky when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Buttinsky means (derogatory) One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody..
Common synonyms include butterinsky, kibitzer, meddler, nosey parker.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I wish I had never met that nosy buttinsky!
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