buttony adjective 4noun 2forms 2 adjective4 •Having a large number of buttons.That carriage came round to Gillespie Street every day; that buttony boy sprang up and down from the box with Emmy’s and Jos’s visiting-cards […] — 1847 •Resembling a button or buttons.The Stalactical, is generally of a brassy colour; and so is the blistered buttony Ore, which is protuberant in a semi-circular form […] — 1778 •Not fully grown and matured; overly small and insufficiently juicy. (of berries)But the little dinky, buttony or warty berries must not be packed at all. — 1912 •Full-berried. (of hops) noun2 •The manufacture of buttons.Whenever we inquired of the village girls what their occupation was, almost invariably the quaint answer ‘We do buttony’ was given. — 1906 •(Scotland) A children’s game played with buttons. formsmore buttony · most buttony
