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  • noun Alternative spelling of buttinsky.

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Examples

  • He could do without the recently enacted smoking ban -- "it seemed too drastic and too much of what we used to call a buttinski view."

    The Journalist as Novelist of New York 2008

  • Since we discovered the packed snow was quite hard on the old buttinski, we were determined to try out the inflatable sled grandma and grandpa bought us for Solstice.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

  • In a neutral voice -- without a hint of defensiveness -- tell this buttinski, "I appreciate your concern, but I am doing just fine."

    Single At The Office Michelle Cove 2010

  • The most involving sections of "Broken," at any rate, are the third-person chapters in which the author's narrative skills are on dazzling display, minus the buttinski "I."

    Review of "Broken," by Karin Fossum 2010

  • The busybody, noseybody, buttinski, self-righteous, priggish church ladies HAVE DRIVEN HOWARD STERN FROM THE AIRWAVES!

    You’re not my mother « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Don't ask the Old Man though, he'd tell you she's a domineering buttinski.

    Animal Personality Field Notes 2006

  • Don't ask the Old Man though, he'd tell you she's a domineering buttinski.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Field Notes 2006

  • I really wanted to poke her in the eye for being such a buttinski.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2001

  • One searches the two fat volumes in vain for such highly characteristic forms as near-accident and buttinski, the use of sure as an adverb, and the employment of well as a sort of general equivalent of the German also.

    Chapter 1. Introductory. 6. The Materials of the Inquiry Henry Louis 1921

  • If the Jew is criticized in America, it is on account of that buttinski bumptiousness upon which he has no monopoly, but which goes with the newly-made rich of any nationality who have little to recommend them beyond the walletoski.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885

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