—buttonhole /ˈbʌt.ən.həʊl/ aep /ˈbʌt̬.ən.hoʊl/
noun [C]
F0 a hole that a button is pushed through to fasten a shirt, coat, etc.
See picture: buttonhole .jpg)
Thesaurus+: ↑Fastening clothing and textiles
F0 MAINLY UK a flower that a man wears in the buttonhole of, or fastened to, his jacket on a special occasion such as a wedding
Thesaurus+: ↑Gloves and other accessoriesverb [T] ↑Verb Endings for buttonhole
► F0 to stop someone and make them listen to you: » Greg buttonholed me about sales figures when I came out of the meeting.Thesaurus+: ↑Interrupting and preventing from speaking- ♯ Prisons and parts of prisons
- ♯ Prisons and related terms
- ♯ Prizes, rewards and medals
- ♯ Problems with bones, joints and teeth
- ♯ Processes and stages connected with sexual reproduction
- ♯ Production, direction and recording
- ♯ Products and producers
- ♯ Products of fire
- ♯ Profanity
- ♯ Profits and losses
- ♯ Programmes and other broadcasts
- ♯ Promontories and peninsulas
- ♯ Promoting, demoting and transferring staff
- ♯ Properties of circles and curves
- ♯ Protecting and saving
- ♯ Protection and protectors
- ♯ Protective clothing
- ♯ Protruding and sticking out
- ♯ Providing and serving meals
- ♯ Providing weapons or taking weapons away
- ♯ Proving and disproving
- ♯ Psychiatry and mental illness
- ♯ Psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis
- ♯ Public buildings
- ♯ Public entertainment venues