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Buttony vs Bottony - What's the difference?

buttony | bottony |

As adjectives the difference between buttony and bottony

is that buttony is ornamented with buttons while bottony is (heraldry) having a bud-like projection or a kind of trefoil at the end.

As a noun buttony

is the manufacture of buttons.

buttony

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Ornamented with buttons.
    • The buttony boy. — Thackeray.
    My coat so blue and buttony . — W. S. Gilbert.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The manufacture of buttons.
  • * 2010 , David Hilliam, Little Book of Dorset
    • Catastrophically for Dorset buttony , Ashton's buttonmaking machine was invented in 1850 and proudly exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. As a consequence of this invention, the Dorset cottage industry collapsed virtually overnight

    bottony

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (heraldry) Having a bud-like projection or a kind of trefoil at the end.

    • Related terms

    * cross bottony

    References

    * " bottony" in Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language , G. & C. Merriam, 1913