buttony
Etymology
From button + -y.
buttony means having a large number of buttons. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 76 out of 100.
adj
- 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 […]”
- 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 […]”
- 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.”
- Resembling a button or buttons.; Full-berried. (of hops)
noun
- The manufacture of buttons.“Whenever we inquired of the village girls what their occupation was, almost invariably the quaint answer ‘We do buttony’ was given.”
- A children’s game played with buttons.“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.”