buttinsky

Meaning

1. (derogatory, informal) One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody.
2. (informal) 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.

Synonyms

bore

fly in the ointment

third wheel

Translations

cotilla

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bʌˈtɪnski/

Etymology

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.