buttinski
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bʌtˈɪnski/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /bʌtˈɪnski/, [bʌɾ-]
- Hyphenation: butt‧in‧ski
Noun edit
buttinski (plural buttinskis)
- Alternative spelling of buttinsky (“one who interferes”)
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC, page 50:
- It is never pleasant for a man of sensibility to find himself regarded as a buttinski and a trailing arbutus, and it was thus, I could see at a g., that Wilbert Cream was pencilling me in.
- Alternative spelling of buttinsky (“telecommunication device”)