buttony

American  

[buht-n-ee] / ˈbʌt n i /

adjective

1. like a button.

2. having many buttons.

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Etymology

Origin of buttony

First recorded in 1590–1600; button + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Her skirt made a buttony noise with the heads of the rib-grass.

From There & Back by MacDonald, George

Hence he sought to place his nose in contact with Flopit's, for he had perceived on the front of the mysterious stranger a buttony something which might possibly be a nose.

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Tarkington, Booth

Before long Amelia had a visiting-book, and was driving about regularly in a carriage, from which a buttony boy sprang from the box with Amelia's and Jos's visiting cards.

From Boys and girls from Thackeray by Sweetser, Kate Dickinson

I lobbed it far and wide over the wall, and it fell noiselessly and quite in the middle of Mr. Trumpington's most buttony calceolaria-bed.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Fondly hoping no one would observe it, she sewed bright buttons wherever they could be put, and sent confiding Boo away in a pair of blue trousers, which were absurdly hunchy behind and buttony before.

From Jack and Jill by Alcott, Louisa May