Dictionary Entry
buttonhole
buttonhole is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The hole or loop in which a button is caught. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
- 2transitive verb
To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
- 3noun
a hole through which buttons are pushed
- 4verb
detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
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