How to pronounce“buttonhole”in English
Then about 3,000 years later, someone finally invented the buttonhole, and buttons were suddenly useful.
The button and the buttonhole is such a great invention.
Not only does it slip through the buttonhole, but then it kind of falls into place, and so you're completely secure, like it's never going to open.
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Definitions of “buttonhole”
A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
“He backed Mr. Lykins against an iron fence, buttonholed him, fastened him with his eye, like the ancient mariner, and proceeded to unfold his narrative as placidly and peacefully as if we were all stretched comfortably in a blossomy summer meadow instead of being persecuted by a wintry midnight tempest: […]”
To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
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