buttony

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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.
形容词 adj.
  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. 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. 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. Resembling a button or buttons.; Full-berried. (of hops)

词形变化

more buttony comparative most buttony superlative

词汇关系

近义词
buttonlike

词源

词源 1
From button + -y.
词源 2
From button + -y.
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