noun
- people who interfere in other people’s business or conversations without being asked
Usage: informal; plural of buttinsky
Examples
- The neighborhood buttinskies always know everyone’s personal affairs.
- We were having a private conversation until the buttinskies at the next table started listening in.
- Those buttinskies can’t help but offer unsolicited advice about everything.
- The meeting was going smoothly until a few buttinskies interrupted with irrelevant comments.
- She complained that her coworkers were such buttinskies, always asking about her weekend plans.
- The family reunion was full of buttinskies asking nosy questions about everyone’s relationships.