English Explanatory Dictionary

buttony

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having a large number of buttons.
  2. Resembling a button or buttons.
  3. Not fully grown and matured; overly small and insufficiently juicy. (of berries)
  4. Full-berried. (of hops)
noun
  1. The manufacture of buttons.
  2. A children’s game played with buttons.

Word forms

buttony more buttony most buttony

Etymology

From button + -y.

Synonyms

buttonlike buttonmaking
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