buttony

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 […]

1869, W. S. Gilbert, “Bob Polter” in Bab Ballads, p. 179, “And will my whiskers curl so tight? My cheeks grow smug and muttony? My face become so red and white? My coat so blue and buttony?

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 […]

Tietjens paused and aimed with his hazel stick an immense blow at a tall spike of yellow mullein with its undecided, furry, glaucous leaves and its undecided, buttony, unripe lemon-coloured flowers.

Resembling a button or buttons.

But the little dinky, buttony or warty berries must not be packed at all.

Some seasons a large number of berries are buttony.

Resembling a button or buttons.

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.

From this time onwards ‘buttony’, or making buttons, gradually became an important industry at which many people earned their livings.

A children’s game played with buttons.

She collected all her treasures, the bottle with the brass top that she had got from Shovel’s old girl, […] the pretty buttons Tommy had won for her at the game of buttony, the witchy marble, […] these and some other precious trifles she made a little bundle of and set off for Double Dykes with them, intending to leave them at the door.