buttony
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buttony
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From button + -y.
adjective more buttony · most buttony
- Having a large number of buttons. That carriage came round to Gillespie Street every day; that buttony boy sprang up and down from the box with Emmy’s and Jos’s visiting-cards […]
- Resembling a button or buttons. The Stalactical, is generally of a brassy colour; and so is the blistered buttony Ore, which is protuberant in a semi-circular form […]
- Not fully grown and matured; overly small and insufficiently juicy. (of berries) But the little dinky, buttony or warty berries must not be packed at all.
- Full-berried. (of hops)
Similar: buttonlike
noun
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The manufacture of buttons.
Whenever we inquired of the village girls what their occupation was, almost invariably the quaint answer ‘We do buttony’ was given.
Similar: buttonmaking
- A children’s game played with buttons. She collected all her treasures, the bottle with the brass top that she had got from Shovel’s old girl, […] the pretty buttons Tommy had won for her at the game of buttony, the witchy marble, […] these and some other precious trifles she made a little bundle of and set off for Double Dykes with them
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adjective
Similar: buttonlike
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title = {buttony},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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