buttinski

From butt in +‎ -ski (suffix added to a word, name, or phrase to invoke Russianness, Polishness, or a more general Slavicness): see buttinsky.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bʌtˈɪnski/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /bʌtˈɪnski/, [bʌɾ-]
• Hyphenation: butt‧in‧ski

buttinski (plural buttinskis)

1. (telecommunications) 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.
2. Alternative spelling of buttinsky
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855, 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.

• (telecommunications): buttinsky