📖 Definitions of "Buttoning"
verb
- 1
To fasten with a button.
- 2
To be fastened by a button or buttons.
"The coat will not button."
- 3
To stop talking.
noun
- 1
A fastening with buttons.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Buttoning"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| push buttonnoun | Alternative form of push-button. [An electrical switch activated by pressing a button.] |
| pushverb | (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force. |
| clitverb | (slang, vulgar, transitive, intransitive, often with "off") To stimulate the clitoris. |
| clitorisnoun | (anatomy) A sensitive elongated erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva in female humans and other mammals. |
| button-upnoun | A shirt fastened by a vertical column of buttons at the front. |
| collar buttonnoun | A button for fastening a collar. |
| buttonholenoun | A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one. |
| shirt-buttonnoun | A button for a shirt, usually a man's. |
| bucklingnoun | The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing). |
| bachelors buttonnoun | (usually in the plural) Any one of a number of plants with daisylike, button shaped flowers. |
| button holenoun | Alternative form of buttonhole. [A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.] |
| cinchingverb | A fastening. |
| button-downnoun | A shirt with a button-down collar |
| button-holenoun | Alternative form of buttonhole. [A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.] |
| collarbuttonnoun | Alternative form of collar button. [A button for fastening a collar.] |
| bachelor's buttonnoun | (usually in the plural) Any one of a number of plants with daisy-like, button-shaped flowers of the genus Centaurea, especially the species Centaurea cyanus. |
| collar-buttonnoun | Alternative form of collar button. [A button for fastening a collar.] |
| bell buttonnoun | A small, round mechanical device which, when pressed, rings a bell to announce one's presence or call a servant, assistant, etc. |
| stay-buttonnoun | A button on a corset. |
| sleeve-buttonnoun | (dated) A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together. |
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