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Definition of Buttony
1. Adjective. Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button. "Black buttony eyes"
2. Adjective. Ornamented with many buttons.
Definition of Buttony
1. a. Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
Definition of Buttony
1. Adjective. Ornamented with buttons. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Buttony
1. resembling a button [adj]
Literary usage of Buttony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Golspie: Contributions to Its Folklore by Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (1897)
"Buttons (WWM) or buttony (AG). Buttons are played by a stick being set up at
which each boy ... It is perhaps the Forfar- shire ' buttony,' but not the ..."
2. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1893)
"The lady's maid and the chariot, the visiting-book and the buttony page, became
soon as familiar to Amelia as the humble routine of Brompton. ..."
3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1901)
"That carriage came round to Gillespie Street every day: that buttony boy sprang
... The lady's maid and the chariot, the visiting-book and the buttony page, ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen (1898)
"That carriage came round to Gillespie Street every day : that buttony boy ...
The lady's-maid and the chariot, the visiting-book and the buttony page, ..."
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