interject
verbUK /ɪn.təˈdʒɛkt/ · US /ɪn.tɚˈd͡ʒɛkt/
Etymology From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of intericiō (“place between”).
1
To insert something between other things.
2
To say as an interruption or aside.
- He roared with prodigious violence against George the Second. When he ceased, Moody interjected, in an Irish tone, and with a comick look, “Ah! poor George the Second.”1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, pages 474-475:
- ‘Please, sir, Richard says one of the horses has got a very bad cold, and he thinks, sir, if you could make it convenient to go the day after to-morrow, instead of to-morrow, he could physic it to-day, so as—’ ‘Confound his impudence!’ interjected the master.1848, Anne Brontë, “Chapter 24”, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
2 more examples
- As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.1934, Olaf Stapledon, “East is West”, in Sam Moskowitz, editor, Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon, published 1979, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2018:
- Virenque, in a panicky mishearing, replied, “Me a dealer? No, I am not a dealer.” […] Whereupon Virenque’s lawyer interjected, “No, Richard, the judge said leader. It’s not an offense to be a leader.”21 August 2000, Julian Barnes, “The Hardest Test: Drugs and the Tour de France”, in The New Yorker:
3
To interpose oneself; to intervene.
- Derived terms
- interjective, interjectory
- Related terms
- interjectable, interjection, interjector