FromLatininteriectus, perfect passive participle ofintericiō(“place between”).
interject (third-person singular simple presentinterjects,present participleinterjecting,simple past and past participleinterjected)
- (transitive) Toinsert something between other things.
- (transitive) Tosay as aninterruption oraside.
1791,James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor,The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, forCharles Dilly, […],→OCLC,pages474-475:He roared with prodigious violence against George the Second. When he ceased, Moodyinterjected, in an Irish tone, and with a comick look, “Ah! poor George the Second.”
1848,Anne Brontë, “Chapter 24”, inThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall[1]:‘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.
1934,Olaf Stapledon, “East is West”, inSam Moskowitz, editor,Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon[2], published1979:As I listened Iinterjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.
21 August 2000,Julian Barnes, “The Hardest Test: Drugs and the Tour de France”, inThe New Yorker[3]:Virenque, in a panicky mishearing, replied, “Me a dealer? No, I am not a dealer.”[…] Whereupon Virenque’s lawyerinterjected, “No, Richard, the judge saidleader. It’s not an offense to be a leader.”
- (intransitive) Tointerpose oneself; tointervene.
to insert something between other things
