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buttonlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From button + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling a button.
   • [He] was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes. 1922, E. E. Cummings, chapter 7, in The Enormous Room, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 153:
   • […] I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “-Epliogue”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

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Synonyms

buttony