From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Having a large number of button s.
2. * [60 (see http://www.gutenberg.org/files/599/599-h/599-h.htm) ]
3. * 1869 , W. S. Gilbert, “Bob Polter” in _[Bab Ballads]_ , p. [nbsp] 179, <sup> see https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007698772 </sup>
4. *: “And will my whiskers curl so tight?
5. *:: My cheeks grow smug and muttony?
6. *: My face become so red and white?
7. *:: My coat so blue and BUTTONY ?
8. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1873 | author=w:Louisa May Alcott | title= [Work: A Story of Experience] | location=Boston | publisher=Roberts Brothers | chapter=16 | page=372 | url=https://archive.org/details/workstoryofexper00alcorich
|passage=[...] the inconsistent woman fell upon his BUTTONY breast weeping
copiously.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1997 | author= [Kate Wheeler (novelist)] | chapter=Improving My Average | title=Not Where I Started From | location=Boston | publisher=Houghton Mifflin | page=5 | url=https://openlibrary.org/ia/notwhereistarted00kate
|passage=That night I lay on a BUTTONY mildewed company mattress between my
favorite sheets.}}
1. Resembling a button or buttons.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1778 | author=w:William Pryce | title=Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise of Minerals, Mines, and Mining | location=London | publisher=for the author | chapter=3 | page=62 | url=https://archive.org/details/mineralogiacorn00prycgoog
|passage=The Stalactical, is generally of a brassy colour; and so is the
blistered BUTTONY Ore, which is protuberant in a semi-circular form [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1924 | author=w:Ford Madox Ford | title=w:Some Do Not ... | section=Part 1, Chapter 6 | url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700171h.html
|passage=Tietjens paused and aimed with his hazel stick an immense blow at a
tall spike of yellow mullein with its undecided, furry, glaucous leaves and
its undecided, BUTTONY, unripe lemon-coloured flowers.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1938 | author=w:Graham Greene | title=w:Brighton Rock | location=London | publisher=Heinemann | year_published=1962 | section=Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 83 | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.285973
|passage=[...] something a little doggish peeped out of the black BUTTONY
eyes, a hint of the seraglio.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1993 | author=w:John Updike | chapter=The Black Room | title=Prize Stories 1995: The O. Henry Awards | url=https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26258498M/Prize_stories_1995_the_O._Henry_awards | page=279 | publisher=Doubleday | year_published=1995 | location=New York
|passage=[...] the street had been widened at the expense of a row of
sycamores whose blotched bark and BUTTONY seed pods had seemed oddly toylike
to him, as if God were an invisible playmate.}}
1. Not fully grown and matured; overly small and insufficiently juicy. [of berries]
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1912 | author=P. M. Kiely | title=Southern Fruits and Vegetables for Northern Markets | location=St. Louis, Missouri | page=157 | url=https://archive.org/details/southernfruitsv00kiel
|passage=But the little dinky, BUTTONY or warty berries must not be packed at
all.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1917 | author=F. W. Dixon | title=Small Fruit Plants Annual Catalog | publisher=Holton, Kansas | page=8 | url=https://archive.org/details/CAT31299304
|passage=Some seasons a large number of berries are BUTTONY.}}
1. Full-berried. [1] [of hops]
**** Synonyms
- [resembling a button] [en]
*** Noun
[-]
1. The manufacture of button s.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1906 | author=w:Lady Dorothy Nevill | title=The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill | editor=Ralph Nevill | location=London | publisher=Edward Arnold | chapter=3 | page=33 | url=https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofl00neviuoft
|passage=Whenever we inquired of the village girls what their occupation was,
almost invariably the quaint answer ‘We do BUTTONY’ was given.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1958 | author= [Agnes Allen (author)] | title=The Story of Clothes | location=New York | publisher=Roy Publishers | chapter=12 | page=113 | url=https://openlibrary.org/ia/storyofclothes00alle
|passage=From this time onwards ‘ BUTTONY’, or making buttons, gradually
became an important industry at which many people earned their livings.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2007 | author=w:Tracy Chevalier | title=Burning Bright | location=New York | publisher=Dutton | section=Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 126 | url=https://archive.org/details/burningbright00chev
|passage=[...] she busied herself in the front room, rustling about in Anne
Kellaway’s box of BUTTONY materials filled with rings of various sizes, chips
of sheep horn for the Singletons, a ball of flax for shaping round buttons,
bits of linen for covering them, both sharp and blunt needles, and several
different colors and thicknesses of thread.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] A children’s game played with buttons. [2] [3]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1896 | author=w:J. M. Barrie | title=Sentimental Tommy | location=London | publisher=Cassell | chapter=15 | page=172 | url=https://archive.org/details/tommysentimental00barrrich
|passage=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.}}
**** Synonyms
- [manufacture of buttons] [en]
*** References
References:
[1]. Herbert Myrick, _The Hop: Its Culture and Cure, Marketing and Manufacture_ , New York: Orange Judd, 1899, p. [nbsp] 272. <sup> see https://archive.org/details/hopitsculturecur00myririch </sup>
[2]. Alexander Warrack (ed.), _The Concise Scots Dictionary_ , New York: Crescent, 1989, originally published in 1911, p. [nbsp] 66: “a children’s game in which the players, with eyes shut and palms open, guess who has received a button form another player who passes along the line in which they stand.” <sup> see https://openlibrary.org/ia/concisescotsdict0000warr </sup>
[3]. Iona and Peter Opie, _Children’s Games with Things_ , Oxford University Press, 1997, p. [nbsp] 117: [...] “‘Buttony’ is played in a variety of ways [...] . In the basic game a circle is drawn on the ground [...] and the players each throw or flick one of their buttons from about 6 or 8 feet away. If anybody’s button rests in the circle, the thrower is entitled without further argument to every button so far thrown [...] .” <sup> see https://archive.org/details/childrensgameswi00opie </sup>