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Buttonhole - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun buttonhole

is a hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.

As a verb buttonhole

is to detain (a person) in conversation against their will.

buttonhole

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
  • (chiefly, British) a flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration

    • Synonyms

    * (flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration): boutonniere

    Verb

    (buttonhol)
  • To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
  • * Here they are, the brainless few we had been raised to pity and fear, the Stone Age oafs and the seething runts and the ominous, swaggering weightlifters, buttonholing kids like me out on Chancellor Avenue and telling us to keep our baseball bats at the ready in case we were called in the night to take to the streets [...] — " (2004)
  • * http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004291.html

    • Synonyms

    * : accost, waylay

    Derived terms

    * buttonholer

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.