buttinsky slang (orig. U.S.).
(bəˈtɪnskɪ)
Also buttinski.
[Jocular, f. butt in (see butt v.1 1 d) + -sky, final element in many Slavonic names.]
= butt-in. So (nonce-wd.) butteˈrinsky.
| 1902 Ade Girl Proposition 70 The Friend belonged to the Buttinsky Family and refused to stay on the Far Side of the Room. 1903 Cincinnati Enquirer 9 May 13/2 Piker..a cheap grafter; a noser; a butterinsky. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xx. 252 If you think I'm a buttinsky, then I'll just butt in. 1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise iv. 69, I never..met with such a bunch of buttinskis... Nothing is sacred to you. 1960 Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing v. 50 It is never pleasant for a man of sensibility to find himself regarded as a buttinski and a trailing arbutus. |