buttonhole
nounEtymology
Originally buttonhold (“a loop of string to hold a button down”), but changed by folk etymology by influence of hole, By surface analysis, button + hole.
Definitions
A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel.
- The usual cause of conjunctival buttonholes is penetration of the tissue by the tip of a sharp instrument […]
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The mouth, nose or eyes of a tiny appearance.
vagina, coin slot.
The butthole (anus).
To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
- Hiro and Chuck grab the closest thing they can find to a corner table. Hiro buttonholes a waiter and surreptitiously orders a pitcher of Pub Special, mixed half and half with nonalcoholic beer.
- He buttonholed people on the street and related details of his child’s miraculous progress without even prefacing his remarks with the hypocritical but polite: “I know everyone thinks their own child is smart but—”
To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
To sew by buttonhole stitch.
To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally).
To apply a flowery formation in.
To attain buttonhole-like formations on cutting.
- Furze cut it himself after his dinner, with great care and concentrated solemnity, finding the loaf rather too new and the knife too blunt for the carving of slices of ideal thinness. The beastly things would buttonhole!
The neighborhood
- neighborbuttonhook
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for buttonhole. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA