buttony

American  

[buht-n-ee] / ˈbʌt n i /

adjective

1. like a button.

2. having many buttons.

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Etymology

Origin of buttony

First recorded in 1590–1600; button + -y ¹

Example Sentences

And you would sit on one of the four little podgy, buttony, tasselly red chairs that are ranged on the other side of the table facing the sofa.

From Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth

"Isn't he a nice bright doctor?" said Minnie; "he shines so shiny, and he's so very buttony; I think his buttons are splendid."

From The Fairy Nightcaps by Fanny, Aunt

What that dear, brown driver with the red vest, the bobtailed, buttony coat, and the big yellow tassels dancing from his hat brim, thought of those two American damsels we shall never know.

From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Alcott, Louisa May

I lobbed it far and wide over the wall, and it fell noiselessly and quite in the middle of Mr. Trumpington's most buttony calceolaria-bed.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

And will my whiskers curl so tight?My cheeks grow smug and muttony?My face become so red and white?My coat so blue and buttony?

From The Bab Ballads by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir