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Buttony

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a large number of buttons.

    "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 […]"

  2. 2
    Resembling a button or buttons.

    "The Stalactical, is generally of a brassy colour; and so is the blistered buttony Ore, which is protuberant in a semi-circular form […]"

  3. 3
    Resembling a button or buttons.; Not fully grown and matured; overly small and insufficiently juicy. (of berries)

    "But the little dinky, buttony or warty berries must not be packed at all."

  4. 4
    Resembling a button or buttons.; Full-berried. (of hops)
Adjective
  1. 1
    ornamented with many buttons wordnet
  2. 2
    small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The manufacture of buttons. uncountable

    "Whenever we inquired of the village girls what their occupation was, almost invariably the quaint answer ‘We do buttony’ was given."

  2. 2
    A children’s game played with buttons. Scotland, uncountable

    "She collected all her treasures, the bottle with the brass top that she had got from Shovel’s old girl, […] the pretty buttons Tommy had won for her at the game of buttony, the witchy marble, […] these and some other precious trifles she made a little bundle of and set off for Double Dykes with them, intending to leave them at the door."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From button + -y.

Etymology 2

From button + -y.

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