单词 | butterinsky |
释义 | butterinskyn. U.S. colloquial. Now rare. A person who butts in, interrupts, or interferes; a busybody, a meddler. Cf. buttinsky n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] > being a busybody or officiousness > a busybody busybody1526 busyhead1555 stiffler1566 Jack-stickler1579 pragmatical1593 polypragmon1596 polypragmonist1609 polypragmist1613 factotum1618 ardelio1624 polypragmatist1631 pragmatic1634 polypragmatic1636 pragmatist1640 stickler1702 gad1756 pantopragmatic1860 butterinsky1902 eager beaver1942 1902 San Francisco Bull. 27 Apr. (Mag. section) 12 That noble butterinsky who hangs around the billiard table and tells you what to do. 1917 Mixer & Server 26 44/2 If the soldier boys at the front..are not developed into sissies before departure it won't be the fault of the innumerable butterinskies with the word Christian tagged to their title. 1952 M. Millar Vanish in Instant xxiv. 223 You're a butterinski, Victor. That's what we used to call people like you in my day. 1995 Economist 23 Sept. 57/1 Friends have called him a ‘chronic butterinsky’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1902 |
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