buttony

[ buht-n-ee ]

adjective

1. like a button.
2. having many buttons. button.

Word History and Origins

Origin of buttony¹

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

Example Sentences

"Nice boy! he never forgets to do a kindness and be a comfort to his Polly," she said, leaning her tired head on his buttony jacket, as he stood beside her.

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In the fields grew nice little buttony mushrooms.

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"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."

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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.

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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.

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