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Noun [English]

Audio: en-us-buttonhole.ogg Forms: buttonholes [plural]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{surf|en|button|hole}} By surface analysis, button + hole Head templates: {{en-noun}} buttonhole (plural buttonholes)
  1. A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one. Translations (hole for a button): عُرْوَة (ʕurwa) [feminine] (Arabic), կոճականցք (kočakancʻkʻ) (Armenian), լամբակ (lambak) (Armenian), ohal (Bikol), или́к (ilík) [masculine] (Bulgarian), trau (Campidanese Sardinian), trau [masculine] (Catalan), 紐孔 (Chinese Mandarin), 纽孔 (niǔkǒng) (Chinese Mandarin), knoflíková dírka [feminine] (Czech), knaphul [neuter] (Danish), knoopsgat [neuter] (Dutch), butontruo (Esperanto), knapphol [neuter] (Faroese), napinläpi (Finnish), napinreikä (Finnish), boutonnière [feminine] (French), ollal [masculine] (Galician), ollete [masculine] (Galician), traccu (Gallurese), Knopfloch [neuter] (German), κουμπότρυπα (koumpótrypa) [feminine] (Greek), חור כפתור (Hebrew), אִבְקָה (Hebrew), gomblyuk (Hungarian), hnappagat [neuter] (Icelandic), poll cnaipe [masculine] (Irish), occhiello [masculine] (Italian), asola [feminine] (Italian), ボタン穴 (botan-ana) (Japanese), илик (ilik) [masculine] (Macedonian), илика (ilika) [feminine] (Macedonian), batawiyan (Maranao), knapphull [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), knapphol [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), knapphol [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), جا دکمه (jâ-dokme) (Persian), انگیله (angile) (Persian), Knooploch [neuter] (Plautdietsch), dziurka od guzika [feminine] (Polish), casa de botão [feminine] (Portuguese), casa [feminine] (Portuguese), botoeira [feminine] (Portuguese), ਕਾਜ (kāj) [masculine] (Punjabi), пе́тля (pétlja) [feminine] (Russian), петля́ (petljá) [feminine] (Russian), петли́ца (petlíca) [feminine] (Russian), ayette [Logudorese] (Sardinian), oyètte [Logudorese] (Sardinian), traùccu [Logudorese] (Sardinian), traoccu (Sassarese Sardinian), toll-putain [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), cneap-tholl [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), ѝлик [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ѝлика [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), за̑мчица [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), о̏мча [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ìlik [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ìlika [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), zȃmčica [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ȍmča [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ojal [masculine] (Spanish), knapphål [neuter] (Swedish), петля́ (petljá) [feminine] (Ukrainian), пете́лька (petélʹka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), twll botwm [masculine] (Welsh), קנאָפּלאָך (knoplokh) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-buttonhole-en-noun-3sc~k0CQ Disambiguation of 'hole for a button': 83 0 0 10 0 0 7
  2. (chiefly British) A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration. Tags: British Synonyms: boutonniere
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  3. (chiefly British) A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
    (attributive) So shaped that it can be worn on a buttonhole or it is similar to a buttonhole.
    Tags: British, attributive Synonyms: boutonniere
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  4. (surgery) A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel. Categories (topical): Surgery
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  5. The mouth and/or nose and/or eyes if appearing tiny.
    Sense id: en-buttonhole-en-noun-xjfa7lwL
  6. (obsolete) vagina, coin slot. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: vagina
    Sense id: en-buttonhole-en-noun-4W-S93XP Categories (other): Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 4 16 17 9 2 12 1 4 5 15 2 7 5
  7. (lightly vulgar) The butthole (anus). Synonyms: anus
    Sense id: en-buttonhole-en-noun-en:anus
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: button-hole, button hole Related terms: buttonhook Translations (flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration): петлица (petlica) [feminine] (Bulgarian), knaphulsblomst [common-gender] (Danish), boutonnière (Dutch), rintakukka (Finnish), boutonnière [feminine] (French), Boutonniere [feminine] (German), blóm í hnappagat [neuter] (Icelandic), blóm í barm [neuter] (Icelandic), илик (ilik) [masculine] (Macedonian), илика (ilika) [feminine] (Macedonian), knapphullsblomst [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), knappholsblomst [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), butonierka [feminine] (Polish), бутонье́рка (butonʹjérka) [feminine] (Russian), ѝлик [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ѝлика [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), за̑мчица [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ко̏в [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), о̏мча [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ìlik [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ìlika [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), zȃmčica [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kȍv [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ȍmča [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), knapphålsblomma [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration': 3 43 43 10 1 1 0

Verb [English]

Audio: en-us-buttonhole.ogg Forms: buttonholes [present, singular, third-person], buttonholing [participle, present], buttonholed [participle, past], buttonholed [past]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{surf|en|button|hole}} By surface analysis, button + hole Head templates: {{en-verb}} buttonhole (third-person singular simple present buttonholes, present participle buttonholing, simple past and past participle buttonholed)
  1. (transitive, colloquial) To detain (a person) in conversation against their will. Tags: colloquial, transitive Synonyms: accost, waylay Translations (to detain a person in conversation): napata rintapielestä (Finnish), tenir la jambe (French), cazar al espartillo [colloquial] (Spanish)
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  2. (transitive, intransitive) To cut one or more buttonholes (in). Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-buttonhole-en-verb-UBCHWfk7
  3. (transitive) To sew by buttonhole stitch. Tags: transitive
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  4. (transitive, surgery, chiefly archaic) To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally). Tags: archaic, transitive Categories (topical): Surgery
    Sense id: en-buttonhole-en-verb-03VtpZou Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
  5. (transitive, rare) To apply a flowery formation in. Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-buttonhole-en-verb-oTuzrK~f
  6. (intransitive, archaic, rare) To attain buttonhole-like formations on cutting. Tags: archaic, intransitive, rare
    Sense id: en-buttonhole-en-verb-D3pYg00o
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: button-hole, button hole Derived forms: buttonholer

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Alternative forms

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          "text": "He buttonholed people on the street and related details of his child’s miraculous progress without even prefacing his remarks with the hypocritical but polite: “I know everyone thinks their own child is smart but—”",
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        "(chiefly British) A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.",
        "(attributive) So shaped that it can be worn on a buttonhole or it is similar to a buttonhole."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "boutonniere"
        }
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        "British",
        "attributive"
      ]
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        "English links with manual fragments",
        "English links with redundant alt parameters",
        "English links with redundant wikilinks",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Surgery"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: keyhole"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, George L. Spaeth, Helen Danesh-Meyer, Ivan Goldberg, Ophthalmic Surgery: Principles and Practice E-Book, page 220:",
          "text": "The usual cause of conjunctival buttonholes is penetration of the tissue by the tip of a sharp instrument […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surgery",
          "surgery"
        ],
        [
          "slot",
          "slot"
        ],
        [
          "cut",
          "cut"
        ],
        [
          "incision",
          "incision"
        ],
        [
          "scalpel",
          "scalpel"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(surgery) A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:surgery"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences",
        "surgery"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The mouth and/or nose and/or eyes if appearing tiny."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mouth",
          "mouth"
        ],
        [
          "nose",
          "nose"
        ],
        [
          "eye",
          "eye"
        ],
        [
          "tiny",
          "tiny"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "vagina, coin slot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vagina",
          "vagina"
        ],
        [
          "coin slot",
          "coin slot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) vagina, coin slot."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "vagina"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The butthole (anus)."
      ],
      "qualifier": "lightly vulgar",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(lightly vulgar) The butthole (anus)."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:anus"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "anus"
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      "word": "button-hole"
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    {
      "word": "button hole"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʕurwa",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "عُرْوَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kočakancʻkʻ",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "կոճականցք"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "lambak",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "լամբակ"
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    {
      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "ohal"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ilík",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "или́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "trau"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "紐孔"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "niǔkǒng",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "纽孔"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "knoflíková dírka"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "knaphul"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "knoopsgat"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "butontruo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "knapphol"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "napinläpi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "napinreikä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "boutonnière"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ollal"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ollete"
    },
    {
      "code": "sdn",
      "lang": "Gallurese",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "traccu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Knopfloch"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "koumpótrypa",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "κουμπότρυπα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "חור כפתור"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "אִבְקָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "gomblyuk"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hnappagat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "poll cnaipe"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "occhiello"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asola"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "botan-ana",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "ボタン穴"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ilik",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "илик"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ilika",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "илика"
    },
    {
      "code": "mrw",
      "lang": "Maranao",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "batawiyan"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "knapphull"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "knapphol"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "knapphol"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "jâ-dokme",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "جا دکمه"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "angile",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "انگیله"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Knooploch"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dziurka od guzika"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "casa de botão"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "casa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "botoeira"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "kāj",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ਕਾਜ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pétlja",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пе́тля"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "petljá",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "петля́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "petlíca",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "петли́ца"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Campidanese Sardinian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "trau"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "Logudorese"
      ],
      "word": "ayette"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "Logudorese"
      ],
      "word": "oyètte"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "Logudorese"
      ],
      "word": "traùccu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sdc",
      "lang": "Sassarese Sardinian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "word": "traoccu"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "toll-putain"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cneap-tholl"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ѝлик"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ѝлика"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "за̑мчица"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "о̏мча"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ìlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ìlika"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zȃmčica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ȍmča"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ojal"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "knapphål"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "petljá",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "петля́"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "petélʹka",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пете́лька"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "twll botwm"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "knoplokh",
      "sense": "hole for a button",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "קנאָפּלאָך"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "petlica",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "петлица"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "knaphulsblomst"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "word": "boutonnière"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "word": "rintakukka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "boutonnière"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Boutonniere"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blóm í hnappagat"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blóm í barm"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ilik",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "илик"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ilika",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "илика"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "knapphullsblomst"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "knappholsblomst"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "butonierka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "butonʹjérka",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бутонье́рка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ѝлик"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ѝлика"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "за̑мчица"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ко̏в"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "о̏мча"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ìlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ìlika"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zȃmčica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kȍv"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ȍmča"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "flower worn in the buttonhole for decoration",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "knapphålsblomma"
    }
  ],
  "word": "buttonhole"
}

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  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "buttonholer"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "button",
        "3": "hole"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, button + hole",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "buttonholes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "buttonholing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buttonholed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "buttonholed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: grab by the lapels"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVI, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter 50, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part V, page 890:",
          "text": "He buttonholed people on the street and related details of his child’s miraculous progress without even prefacing his remarks with the hypocritical but polite: “I know everyone thinks their own child is smart but—”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Philip Roth, The Plot Against America:",
          "text": "Here they are, the brainless few we had been raised to pity and fear, the Stone Age oafs and the seething runts and the ominous, swaggering weightlifters, buttonholing kids like me out on Chancellor Avenue and telling us to keep our baseball bats at the ready in case we were called in the night to take to the streets [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To detain (a person) in conversation against their will."
      ],
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          "conversation",
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        "(transitive, colloquial) To detain (a person) in conversation against their will."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "accost"
        },
        {
          "word": "waylay"
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      ]
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      "categories": [
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        "English transitive verbs"
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      "glosses": [
        "To cut one or more buttonholes (in)."
      ],
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          "intransitive",
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        ]
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To cut one or more buttonholes (in)."
      ],
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        "intransitive",
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    },
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      "categories": [
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      "glosses": [
        "To sew by buttonhole stitch."
      ],
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          "buttonhole stitch"
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        "(transitive) To sew by buttonhole stitch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Surgery"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surgery",
          "surgery"
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          "incision",
          "incision"
        ]
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        "(transitive, surgery, chiefly archaic) To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences",
        "surgery"
      ]
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        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871 December 17, Henry K. Staley, “Forestry and Apiculture”, in The American Bee Journal, volume 28, number 25, pages 781b of 779a–782b:",
          "text": "What tree of more pulchritude and symmetricalness could you nominate for roadside, street and public park planting than the graceful linden? We should possess more of the spirit which predominates in this direction in the crowning gem of America’s constitutionality—the City of Washington, D. C. ‘‘Unter den Lindens’’ would not only be found in Germany, but in all the large cities of our grand and glorious United States. Washington has her Unter den Linden in the Massachussetts^([sic]) avenue. Her North and South Capital streets are buttonholed with the stately tulips, which are fit emblems to thus adorn the meridian of the United States.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To apply a flowery formation in."
      ],
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        [
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          "formation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To apply a flowery formation in."
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      "tags": [
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        "transitive"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1927, Warwick Deeping, Doomsday, page 77:",
          "text": "Furze cut it himself after his dinner, with great care and concentrated solemnity, finding the loaf rather too new and the knife too blunt for the carving of slices of ideal thinness. The beastly things would buttonhole!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attain buttonhole-like formations on cutting."
      ],
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          "like",
          "like"
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        "(intransitive, archaic, rare) To attain buttonhole-like formations on cutting."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "intransitive",
        "rare"
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    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "button-hole"
    },
    {
      "word": "button hole"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to detain a person in conversation",
      "word": "napata rintapielestä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to detain a person in conversation",
      "word": "tenir la jambe"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to detain a person in conversation",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "cazar al espartillo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "buttonhole"
}

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