Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who makes buttonholes; also, a machine designed to be used in making buttonholes.
  • noun One who buttonholes another.

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  • Anyone else read this as buttholer? No? Crap.

    August 30, 2021

  • buttonholer - a person who holds someone in a long conversation against their will

    May 21, 2024