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local loop
telephone lines. It is also
called a test set, butt set, or
buttinski. A
typical lineman's
handset integrates an earpiece, a mouthpiece, a dialing...
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about was the 20th century's
dominant scrambled egghead bien
pensant buttinski parlor pinko righty-tighty lefty-loosey
nutfudge notion that middle-class...
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Anatoly Liberman (October 7, 2015). "Bare
bodkins and sp****ly
clothed buttinskis, or,
speaking daggers but
using none". OUPblog.
Oxford University Press...
- with Mrs. Brinks,
referring to her on one
occasion as "little
Naninski Buttinski".
Conrad works for the town's public-access
television station where he...
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programs in
public schools, and enjo****
being called a "professional
buttinski" by Kent Brockman. The
musical numbers were
composed by Alf Clausen, the...
- backronym. nosy (or nosey) parker * a
busybody (similar to US: butt-in,
buttinski, nosy) nous Good sense; shrewdness: "Hillela had the nous to take up with...
