Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

buttony

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: but-tony
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a large number of buttons.

adj

Resembling a button or buttons.

adj

Resembling a button or buttons.

adj

Resembling a button or buttons.

noun

The manufacture of buttons.

Uncountable

noun

A children’s game played with buttons.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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 […]"
"1869, W. S. Gilbert, “Bob Polter” in Bab Ballads, p. 179, “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?"
"[…] the inconsistent woman fell upon his buttony breast weeping copiously."
"That night I lay on a buttony mildewed company mattress between my favorite sheets."
"The Stalactical, is generally of a brassy colour; and so is the blistered buttony Ore, which is protuberant in a semi-circular form […]"
"Tietjens paused and aimed with his hazel stick an immense blow at a tall spike of yellow mullein with its undecided, furry, glaucous leaves and its undecided, buttony, unripe lemon-coloured flowers."

Etymology

From button + -y.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

more buttony (comparative) most buttony (superlative)

Synonyms

buttonlike buttonmaking beady beadlike

Questions

What does buttony mean?: Having a large number of buttons.
Where does buttony come from?: From button + -y.

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