英语词汇“button mouth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Similative, with the sense ‘resembling or suggestive of a button, esp. in being small and rounded’, as button eye, button mouth, etc. Cf. sense 1c and also button nose n. at Compounds 2a.

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1735 J. Moore Columbarium 53 It is a small Pigeon..; it has a round button Head.

1859 Monthly Packet June 605 He had even won a smile from the little button-mouth of the small Albinia.

1892 Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve III. iv. iv. 211 A little man in a bob wig, with a turned-up nose and a button chin.

1966 Daily Mail 24 Mar. 18/2 Her bright little button face suffused in a seraphic beam.

2010 J. Manning Killing Room 14 In front of her..sat a baby, its round button eyes staring.

P1. slang or colloquial. to button (a person's) lip (also mouth), also (esp. in early use) to button up (a person's) lip (also mouth), and variants: to silence (a person).

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > deprive of voice [verb (transitive)] > put to silence

to put silence toc1384

to stop (one's own or another's) mouthc1384

to put (a person or thing) to silencea1464

mumc1475

stillc1540

to button up (a person's) lip (also mouth)1601

obacerate1656

bouche1721

to shut up1814

to pipe down1926

to button (a person's) lip (also mouth)1968

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels To Rdr. sig. a2^v We haue..buttoned vp their lips, or euer they begin to speake.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts 526 How easily can God button up the mouths of our busiest adversaries.

1888 Belleville (Kansas) Telescope 27 Dec. To button up his small friend's back was an easy matter, but to button up his mouth..was quite futile.

1968 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 8 Aug. 8/4 He will give his sister a reply that will button her lip for all time.

2007 M. Phillips Gods behaving Badly (2008) xvii. 102 ‘Don't act the idiot,’ said Apollo, ‘or I'll button your lip. Permanently.’

单词	button mouth
释义	> as lemmas button mouth b. Similative, with the sense ‘resembling or suggestive of a button, esp. in being small and rounded’, as button eye, button mouth, etc. Cf. sense 1c and also button nose n. at Compounds 2a. ΚΠ 1735 J. Moore Columbarium 53 It is a small Pigeon..; it has a round button Head. 1859 Monthly Packet June 605 He had even won a smile from the little button-mouth of the small Albinia. 1892 Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve III. iv. iv. 211 A little man in a bob wig, with a turned-up nose and a button chin. 1966 Daily Mail 24 Mar. 18/2 Her bright little button face suffused in a seraphic beam. 2010 J. Manning Killing Room 14 In front of her..sat a baby, its round button eyes staring. extracted from buttonn. to button (a person's) lip (also mouth) P1. slang or colloquial. to button (a person's) lip (also mouth), also (esp. in early use) to button up (a person's) lip (also mouth), and variants: to silence (a person). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > deprive of voice [verb (transitive)] > put to silence to put silence toc1384 to stop (one's own or another's) mouthc1384 to put (a person or thing) to silencea1464 mumc1475 stillc1540 to button up (a person's) lip (also mouth)1601 obacerate1656 bouche1721 to shut up1814 to pipe down1926 to button (a person's) lip (also mouth)1968 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels To Rdr. sig. a2^v We haue..buttoned vp their lips, or euer they begin to speake. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts 526 How easily can God button up the mouths of our busiest adversaries. 1888 Belleville (Kansas) Telescope 27 Dec. To button up his small friend's back was an easy matter, but to button up his mouth..was quite futile. 1968 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 8 Aug. 8/4 He will give his sister a reply that will button her lip for all time. 2007 M. Phillips Gods behaving Badly (2008) xvii. 102 ‘Don't act the idiot,’ said Apollo, ‘or I'll button your lip. Permanently.’ extracted from buttonv. < as lemmas
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