释义 |
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.
1902Ade Girl Proposition 70 The Friend belonged to the Buttinsky Family and refused to stay on the Far Side of the Room. 1903Cincinnati Enquirer 9 May 13/2 Piker..a cheap grafter; a noser; a butterinsky. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt xx. 252 If you think I'm a buttinsky, then I'll just butt in. 1933D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise iv. 69, I never..met with such a bunch of buttinskis... Nothing is sacred to you. 1960Wodehouse 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. |