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Buttony   Listen
Buttony

adjective
1.
Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button.  Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike.  "Black buttony eyes"
2.
Ornamented with many buttons.





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"Buttony" Quotes from Famous Books



... heads, would now and then awake. The creature came and vanished like an undefined sense of evil at hand. But it was only Richard who thought that; nothing such crossed the starry clearness of Barbara's soul. Her skirt made a buttony noise with the heads of the rib-grass. Her red cloak was dark in the moonlight. She threw back the hood, and coming out of its shadow like another moon from a cloud, walked the earth with bare head. Her hands too ...
— There & Back • George MacDonald
... the same leg, so one was wrong side out. Fondly hoping no one would observe it, she sewed bright buttons wherever they could be put, and sent confiding Boo away in a pair of blue trousers, which were absurdly hunchy behind and buttony before. He came home heart-broken and muddy, having been accidentally tipped into a mud-puddle by two bad boys who felt that such tailoring was an insult to mankind. That roused Molly's spirit, and she begged her father to take the boy and have him properly fitted out, as he ...
— Jack and Jill • Louisa May Alcott


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