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Word entry · 7 letters

buttony

Best crossword clue

"Covered with knobs"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted bnottuyStarts with BEnds with Y1 clues
1B2U3T4T5O6N7Y

Definitions

  1. ornamented with many buttons

Word origin

From button + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • That carriage came round to Gillespie Street every day; that buttony boy sprang up and down from the box with Emmy’s and Jos’s visiting-cards […]
  • 1869, W. S. Gilbert, “Bob Polter” in Bab Ballads, p. 179, “And will my whiskers curl so tight? My cheeks grow smug and muttony? My face become so red and white? My coat so blue and buttony?
  • […] the inconsistent woman fell upon his buttony breast weeping copiously.

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