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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the
buttons on his livery.
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- noun Plural form of
button . - noun colloquial, dated A
boy servant , orpage . - noun slang A
policeman . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
button .
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Examples
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All our indignation to the contrary, we prefer the complicated and difficult: we enjoy our buttons; we are withheld only by our queer sex-pride from wearing garments that button up in the back -- indeed, on what we frankly call our 'best clothes,' we _have the buttons_ though we _dare not button_ with them.
The Perfect Gentleman Ralph Bergengren 1909
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The villain was a traveller in buttons -- _buttons!
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol William John Locke 1896
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This bullshit support of Google/Yahoo OpenID login buttons is a great example of that.
Responding to criticisms about OpenID: convenience, security and personal agency | FactoryCity 2008
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The configuration of the buttons is a bit awkward.
2009 January 2009
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Investigating what pushes our buttons is a fantastic gift to us as writers.
Three Techniques to Avoid Being a Boring Writer | Write to Done 2009
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pirate elvis lives spring and autumn flowers, fruits, and grasses write to the title buttons, buttons, eat all the buttons!
so sleepy... 2008
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pirate elvis lives spring and autumn flowers, fruits, and grasses write to the title buttons, buttons, eat all the buttons!
alien impressionisms 2008
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pirate elvis lives spring and autumn flowers, fruits, and grasses write to the title buttons, buttons, eat all the buttons!
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pirate elvis lives spring and autumn flowers, fruits, and grasses write to the title buttons, buttons, eat all the buttons!
pirate elvis lives 2008
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pirate elvis lives spring and autumn flowers, fruits, and grasses write to the title buttons, buttons, eat all the buttons!
do we call it "Calvinball" and/or "उइद्दित्च"? we should if we don't... 2008
chained_bear commented on the word buttons
Added to my list for the meaning "sheep droppings." Thanks, reesetee.
October 24, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word buttons
Captured at Yorktown, "171 and 1/4 dozen buttons."
Edit: I'm pretty sure they didn't mean sheep droppings.
October 29, 2007
bilby commented on the word buttons
I like buttons. My grandmother had a big jar of buttons. On rainy days she would tip them out on a rug and we would sort them into piles, looking for patterns in colour and shape.
October 21, 2008
frindley commented on the word buttons
My mother kept hers in an old-fashioned handbag. The kind that had a shallow round woven straw base, with a simple suede drawstring bag attached to that.
October 21, 2008
dontcry commented on the word buttons
My grandma kept hers in a big cracker tin. I played with them for hours on end.
October 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word buttons
There was a fabric store near our house where my mom shopped for stuff to make all our clothes with. This store had an old chest freezer with the top door taken off. It was about half-filled with old and mismatched buttons. I used to stick my little-kid arms in it and try to touch the bottom. I remember thinking it would be cool to have an even bigger chest filled with more buttons, so I could get in it and roll around.
P.S. I still don't mean sheep droppings.
October 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word buttons
Your mother had a waaaay cooler fabric store to shop at than mine did. The one we went to had a pen on the porch to put the children in.
October 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word buttons
Didn't it have any buttons?
October 21, 2008
reesetee commented on the word buttons
Ah, the old freezer chest o' buttons. . . . Did your eyes burn every time you went into the fabric store? Mine did. All that fabric sizing, I think.
October 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word buttons
Nope, just astroturf.
October 22, 2008
renaultr17 commented on the word buttons
We refer to remote controls as "the buttons". Example sentence, "The T.V. is too loud, do you have the buttons?"
July 15, 2009