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16 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• buttonhole n. A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
• buttonhole n. (Chiefly Britain) A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
• buttonhole n. (Surgery) A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel.
• buttonhole n. The mouth and/or nose and/or eyes if appearing tiny.
• buttonhole n. (Obsolete) vagina, coin slot.
• buttonhole n. (Lightly vulgar) anus, batty hole.
• buttonhole v. (Transitive, colloquial) To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
• buttonhole v. (Transitive, intransitive) To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
• buttonhole v. (Transitive) To sew by buttonhole stitch.
• buttonhole v. (Transitive, surgery, chiefly archaic) To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally).
• buttonhole v. (Transitive, rare) To apply a flowery formation in.
• buttonhole v. (Intransitive, archaic, rare) To attain buttonhole-like formations on cutting.
• button-hole n. Alternative form of buttonhole.
• button␣hole n. Alternative form of buttonhole.

— English word, defined in French —

• buttonhole n. Boutonnière.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• buttonhole s. Ojal.

74 English words from 14 English definitions

accident against Alternative and and/or anus appearing apply archaic attain batty batty␣hole Britain button buttonhole buttonholes buttonhole␣stitch chiefly coin coin␣slot colloquial conversation cut cut␣one cutting decoration detain example eyes flower flowery for for␣example form formation formations garment hole incision intentionally intransitive Lightly like made make more mouth nose Obsolete one part person pushed rare scalpel secure sew slot small some stitch surgery the their through tiny Transitive unintentionally vagina vulgar which will with worn

1 English word from 2 foreign definitions

Boutonnière

1 foreign word from 2 foreign definitions

Ojal

8 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

buttonholed buttonholer buttonholes button-holes button␣holes buttonholers buttonhole␣stitch buttonhole␣stitches

21 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

but But but- butt Butt button Button HoL hol- hole Hole ole OLE olé -ole 'Ole ton TON -ton TTO Utt

16 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

elo Elo Loh LOH not NOT not. Not. nott Nott ohn oh␣no ott Ott OTT tub

5 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

buttonholed buttonholer buttonholes button-holes button␣holes

One anagram found minus a letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Bluetooth

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