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Buttony   Listen
adjective
Buttony  adj.  Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." "My coat so blue and buttony."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Buttony" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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



Words linked to "Buttony" :   bright, beadlike, button, decorated



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