‘I'm sorry we are so late,’ he was saying. ‘We couldn't find a button-hook, so it took us a long time to button our boots.’
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Buttonhook
Synonyms for "buttonhook"
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5 translations across 5 languages.
Irish
1 entries- crúca cnaipe noun (A hook used to pull thread through a button's holes)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Knoophoake noun (A hook used to pull thread through a button's holes)
Polish
1 entries- haczyk noun (A hook used to pull thread through a button's holes)
Portuguese
1 entries- abotoador noun (A hook used to pull thread through a button's holes)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гапли́к noun (A hook used to pull thread through a button's holes)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.
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Yet the Bears never set up the deep patterns with a turn-in or a buttonhook[…].
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