Definitions from Wiktionary (buttonhole)

▸ noun:  A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
▸ noun:  (chiefly British) A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
▸ noun:  (attributive) So shaped that it can be worn on a buttonhole or it is similar to a buttonhole.
▸ noun:  (surgery) A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel.
▸ noun:  The mouth, nose or eyes of a tiny appearance.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) vagina, coin slot.
▸ noun:  (lightly vulgar) The butthole (anus).
▸ verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To sew by buttonhole stitch.
▸ verb:  (transitive, surgery, chiefly archaic) To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally).
▸ verb:  (transitive, rare) To apply a flowery formation in.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, archaic, rare) To attain buttonhole-like formations on cutting.
▸ Also see buttonhole




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