Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of button
nounbuttoning (plural buttonings)
plural buttonings
- A fastening with buttons.
He threw himself as he spoke upon a chair, and indolently, but gracefully, received the kind offices of Albert, who undid the coarse buttonings of the leathern gamashes which defended his legs[…]
1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock
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“buttoning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buttoning. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “buttoning,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buttoning.
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