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 […]
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Buttony
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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?
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[…] the inconsistent woman fell upon his buttony breast weeping copiously.
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That night I lay on a buttony mildewed company mattress between my favorite sheets.
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