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Date "BUTTON-HOLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Button-hole To button-hole a person. To bore one with conversation. The French have the same locution: Serrer le bouton [á quel qu'un]. "He went about button-holing and boring everyone."- H. Kingsley: Mathilde. To take one down a button-hole. To take one down a peg; to lower one's conceit. "Better mind yerselves, or I'll take ye down a button-hole lower."- Mrs. B. Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin, iv. Button-hole (A). A flower inserted in the button-hole of a coat. "In fine weather he [the driver of a hansom] will sport a button-hole- generally a dahlia, or some flower of that ilk."- Nineteenth Century (March, 1893, p. 473). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BUTTON-HOLE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BUTTON-HOLE" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BUTTON-HOLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Manx | towl cramman. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | utton-holebay knapphål (button hole, buttonhole). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: buttonhole. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-h-l-n-o-o-t-t-u" | |
-4 letters: blotto, bottle, bouton, button, nutlet, outlet, tenuto, tonlet, tootle, unbelt, unbolt. | |
-5 letters: beton, bhoot, blent, bluet, blunt, booth, botel, boule, buteo, butle, butte, helot, hotel, lento, lotte, lotto, lunet, noble, obole, tenth, thole, tooth, unlet. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-h-l-n-o-o-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: buttonholed, buttonholer, buttonholes. | |
+2 letters: buttonholers. | |
+5 letters: troubleshooting. | |
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