buttinsky
nounEtymology
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.
- derived from surnames
Definitions
One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome
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!
A robust portable one-piece telephone instrument with clips, used by technicians and…
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.
The neighborhood
- neighborbutterinsky
- neighborback-seat driver
- neighborencroacher
- neighborgatecrasher
- neighborinterloper
- neighborintruder
- neighbormarplot
- neighborpeeping tom
- neighborpersona non grata
- neighborsnoop
- neighborsnooper
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for buttinsky. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA