"butt in" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-butt in.ogg [Australia] Forms: butts in [present, singular, third-person], butting in [participle, present], butted in [participle, past], butted in [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} butt in (third-person singular simple present butts in, present participle butting in, simple past and past participle butted in)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To join a conversation or situation in which one is not welcome or invited; to interject (connotes a rude or discourteous interruption). Tags: idiomatic, informal Derived forms: buttinsky Translations (to join conversation when not welcome): намесвам се (namesvam se) (Bulgarian), onderbreken (Dutch), zich moeien (Dutch), zich inmengen (Dutch), ramener sa fraise [familiar] (French), s’incruster [familiar] (French), entrometer (Galician), unterbrechen (German), sich einmischen (German), intromettersi (Italian), kohiko (Maori), intrometer-se (Portuguese), meter o nariz onde não é chamado (Portuguese), meter o bedelho em (Portuguese), встрева́ть (vstrevátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вкли́ниваться (vklínivatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), вме́шиваться (alt: не в своё де́ло) [imperfective] (Russian), meter baza (Spanish), lägga sig i (Swedish), ยุ่ง (yûng) (Thai), burnunu sokmak (Turkish), maydanoz olmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-butt_in-en-verb-~qfClt5B Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (in) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (in): 77 23 Disambiguation of 'to join conversation when not welcome': 73 27
  2. (transitive) To join a queue not at the end, but in the middle. Tags: transitive Translations (to join a queue not at the end, but in the middle): coarse (Galician), furar fila (Portuguese), вкли́ниваться (alt: в о́чередь) [imperfective] (Russian), kaynak yapmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-butt_in-en-verb-quEWIVwF Disambiguation of 'to join a queue not at the end, but in the middle': 10 90

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for butt in meaning in English (5.9kB)

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          "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
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          "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
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        "(transitive) To join a queue not at the end, but in the middle."
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          "lang": "Turkish",
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      "roman": "namesvam se",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "намесвам се"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "onderbreken"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "zich moeien"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "zich inmengen"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "ramener sa fraise"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "tags": [
        "familiar"
      ],
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    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "entrometer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "unterbrechen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "sich einmischen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "intromettersi"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "kohiko"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "intrometer-se"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "meter o nariz onde não é chamado"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "meter o bedelho em"
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      "tags": [
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      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "alt": "не в своё де́ло",
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      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "вме́шиваться"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "meter baza"
    },
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "lägga sig i"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "yûng",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "ยุ่ง"
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      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "burnunu sokmak"
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to join conversation when not welcome",
      "word": "maydanoz olmak"
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      "word": "coarse"
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