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butterinsky

butterinsky is the alternative form of buttinsky.

Meaning of buttinsky

Noun

buttinsky (plural buttinskys or buttinskies)

  1. (derogatory, informal) One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody.
    • I wish I had never met that nosy buttinsky!
  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:
    butt set

Forms of butterinsky

pluralbutterinskies
alternative formbutterinski

Questions about butterinsky

What is butterinsky the alternative form of?
Butterinsky is the alternative form of buttinsky.

Words near butterinsky in the dictionary

  1. buttering up
  2. butterings
  3. butterinski
  4. butterinskies
  5. butterinskis
  6. butterinsky
  7. butteris
  8. butterises
  9. butterish
  10. butterknife
  11. butterknives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butterinsky (page history and authors); buttinsky (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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