buttonhole
Meanings
Plural: buttonholes
Noun
- a hole through which buttons are pushed
- A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
- A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
- A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
- So shaped that it can be worn on a buttonhole or it is similar to a buttonhole.
- A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel.
- The mouth, nose or eyes of a tiny appearance.
- vagina, coin slot.
- The butthole (anus).
Verb
- detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
- To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
- To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
- To sew by buttonhole stitch.
- To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally).
- To apply a flowery formation in.
- To attain buttonhole-like formations on cutting.
Origin / Etymology
Originally buttonhold (“a loop of string to hold a button down”), but changed by folk etymology by influence of hole, By surface analysis, button + hole.
Synonyms
a-hole, accost, anus, arse, arsehole, ass, asscunt, asshole, asspussy, axe wound, back alley, back door, back passage, balloon knot, batty, batty hole, bearded clam, beaver, berk, bonne bouche, bootyhole, bottom, boutonniere, box, brown eye, browneye, bum, bumhole, bun, bung-hole, bunghole, bungus, bush, butthole, button hole, buttonhole, cavern, chocolate channel, chocolate starfish, chuff, cinnamon ring, clacka, clacker, clunge, coin slot, cooch, coochie, cookie, cooter, cooze, cornhole, crack, craphole, crevice, cumhole, cunny, cunt, ding, dinger, dock, dookie hole, dung funnel, exit hole, fanny, fartbox, farthole, fish lips, foo-foo, fourth point of contact, freckle, front bottom, front bum, front hole, fuckhole, fudge tunnel, fundament, Gary Glitter, gash, ginch, girl, Grand Canyon, gump stump, Hershey highway, honeypot, hoo-ha, innie, jacksie, jacksy, juice box, kebab, keister, kitty, la-la, leather cheerio, lobby, love box, love hole, love tunnel, minge, minnie, monosyllable, moocha, muff, muffin, nonny, other end, pee-pee, penis fly trap, pink, pink bits, poontang, poop chute, pooper, poophole, pump, punani, pussy, quim, rectum, ringpiece, rosebud, rusty sheriff's badge, sausage wallet, sheath, shithole, shitter, slit, sluthole, smelly freckle, snapper, snatch, squish mitten, starfish, stench trench, stinkhole, strange, sugar walls, tewel, tooter, tradesman's entrance, trap, tuppence, turd cutter, twat, twinkle, va-jay-jay, vadge, vag, vagina, vaginer, vent, vertical smile, Virginia, vulva, waylay, wazoo, wee-wee, where the sun don't shine, whisker biscuit, windpipe, wizard's sleeve, ying-yang
Scrabble Score: 15
buttonhole is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordbuttonhole is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
buttonhole is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary