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noun
A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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Synonyms: boutonniere
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
So shaped that it can be worn on a buttonhole or it is similar to a buttonhole.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, attributive
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Synonyms: boutonniere
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
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noun
The mouth, nose or eyes of a tiny appearance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
vagina, coin slot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: axe wound, bearded clam, beaver, berk, bonne bouche, box, bun, bush, cavern, clunge, coin slot, cooch, coochie, cookie, cooter, cooze, crack, crevice, cunny, cunt, fanny, fish lips, foo-foo, front bottom, front bum, front hole, gash, ginch, girl, Grand Canyon, honeypot, hoo-ha, innie, juice box, kebab, kitty, la-la, love box, love tunnel, minge, minnie, monosyllable, moocha, muff, muffin, nonny, pee-pee, penis fly trap, pink, pink bits, poontang, pump, punani, pussy, quim, sausage wallet, sheath, slit, snapper, snatch, squish mitten, stench trench, strange, sugar walls, tuppence, trap, twat, twinkle, vadge, vag, vagina, vaginer, va-jay-jay, vertical smile, Vicky, Victoria, Virginia, vulva, wee-wee, whisker biscuit, wizard's sleeve
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The butthole (anus).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: lightly vulgar
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Synonyms: a-hole, anus, arsehole, arse, asscunt, asshole, asspussy, ass, back alley, back door, back passage, balloon knot, batty, batty hole, bootyhole, bottom, brown eye, browneye, bumhole, bum, bung-hole, bunghole, bungus, butthole, buttonhole, chocolate channel, chocolate starfish, chuff, cinnamon ring, clacka, clacker, cornhole, craphole, cumhole, dinger, ding, dock, dookie hole, dung funnel, exit hole, fartbox, farthole, fourth point of contact, freckle, fuckhole, fudge tunnel, fundament, Gary Glitter, gump stump, Hershey highway, jacksie, jacksy, keister, leather cheerio, love hole, other end, poop chute, pooper, poophole, rear exit, rectum, ringpiece, rosebud, rusty sheriff's badge, shithole, shitter, sluthole, smelly freckle, starfish, stinkhole, tewel, tooter, tradesman's entrance, turd cutter, vent, wazoo, where the sun don't shine, windpipe, ying-yang
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, transitive
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Synonyms: accost, waylay
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
To sew by buttonhole stitch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
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verb
To apply a flowery formation in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To attain buttonhole-like formations on cutting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive, rare
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noun
a hole through which buttons are pushed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: button hole
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hole
verb
detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: lobby
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: solicit, beg, tap
History
Originally buttonhold (“a loop of string to hold a button down”), but changed by folk etymology by influence of hole, By surface analysis, button + hole.
Across languages
102 source translations are retained for this English entry.
