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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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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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butyraceous
  • a  having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter
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buxom
  • s  (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
  • s  (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous;
    a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton
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buzzing
  • v  make a buzzing sound
    bees were buzzing around the hive
  • v  fly low
  • v  be noisy with activity
    This office is buzzing with activity
  • v  call with a buzzer
  • s  noisy like the sound of a bee
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bygone
  • n  past events to be put aside
    let bygones be bygones
  • s  well in the past; former
    bygone days
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