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