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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button +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Though this is a good deal less concerting than the Incite in that the haptic feedback feels more "buttony" and natural.

    Brighthand.com Handheld News and Reviews 2009

  • "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

  • 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

  • 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

    A Little Dinner at Timmins’s 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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