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buttinsky.

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

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/bʌˈtɪnski/Received-Pronunciation/bʌˈtɪnski/General-American[-ˈɾɪn-]General-American
  1. One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody.

    derogatory · informal
    I wish I had never met that nosy buttinsky!
  2. 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
Where this word comes from

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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