Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Decorated with a profusion of buttons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Ornamented with
buttons .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button
- adjective ornamented with many buttons
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though this is a good deal less concerting than the Incite in that the haptic feedback feels more "buttony" and natural.
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"I downloaded some sort of Flash patch for Firefox 3.0.1, and things play, but I frequently have to click first on a Flash logo-buttony thing and then click again to play the video."
"Clintons are lizard people and they are punishing Obama." Ann Althouse 2008
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I downloaded some sort of Flash patch for Firefox 3.0.1, and things play, but I frequently have to click first on a Flash logo-buttony thing and then click again to play the video.
"Clintons are lizard people and they are punishing Obama." Ann Althouse 2008
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It was carried round by that rogue of a buttony page in the evening; and he walked to Brobdingnag Gardens, and in the Park afterwards, with
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Two actors, prancing Gibreel and buttony, pursed Mr. Saladin Chamcha, fell like titbits of tobacco from a broken old cigar.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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Of curiosity we turned our telescopes on to that path, and while we watched there strolled along it two figures in grey -- grey tunics, grey loose trousers, little grey buttony caps, walking down the path towards us, talking, at their ease.
Letters from France 1923
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There were embroidered pillows on the buttony Chesterfield, lace shades to the electric lights, and be-rosebudded liberty silk curtains.
The Halo Bettina Von Hutten 1915
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Hence he sought to place his nose in contact with Flopit's, for he had perceived on the front of the mysterious stranger a buttony something which might possibly be a nose.
Seventeen 1915
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Hence he sought to place his nose in contact with Flopit's, for he had perceived on the front of the mysterious stranger a buttony something which might possibly be a nose.
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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Fondly hoping no one would observe it, she sewed bright buttons wherever they could be put, and sent confiding Boo away in a pair of blue trousers, which were absurdly hunchy behind and buttony before.
Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902
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