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Definition of Buttinski
1. [n -S]
Literary usage of Buttinski
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
""Buttinski is a foreign name ; it sounds Russian or Polish. I 'm afraid I don't
quite understand why they should mistake you for him. ..."
2. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"... stop-over, jump-off, call-down, buttinski. The rapidity with which words move
through the parts of speech must be observed by every student of American. ..."
3. Soldiers of the Legion: Trench Etched by Legionnaire Bowe, who is John Bowe by John Bowe, Charles L. MacGregor (1918)
"I followed more slowly and watched half a dozen English soldiers in animated
conversation with the Corporal, the Scotchman and the Lieutenant Buttinski. ..."
4. Baseball Goes to War by William B. Mead (1998)
"With simple dignity, Ellis offered to bash in the snoot of any officious buttinski.
Then he blushed and stammered, recognizing his handful as Umpire Weafer ..."
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