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buttony
  • s  small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button
    black buttony eyes
  • s  ornamented with many buttons
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buttery
  • n  a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
  • n  a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
  • s  unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
    buttery praise
  • s  resembling or containing or spread with butter
    a rich buttery cake
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button-down
  • s  unimaginatively conventional
  • s  of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons
    Brooks Brothers button-down shirts
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button-shaped
  • s  shaped like a button
    button-shaped white flowers
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buttoned
  • v  provide with buttons
  • v  fasten with buttons
  • a  furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike
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buttoned-down
  • s  unimaginatively conventional
    a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
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buttoned-up
  • s  (British colloquial) not inclined to conversation
  • s  conservative in professional manner
    employers are looking for buttoned-up types
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buttonlike
  • s  small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button
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buttressed
  • v  reinforce with a buttress
  • v  make stronger or defensible
  • s  held up by braces or buttresses
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