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buttonholers

buttonholers is the plural of buttonholer.

Meaning of buttonholer

Noun

buttonholer (plural buttonholers)

  1. One who detains somebody in conversation against their will.
  2. An attachment for a sewing machine which automates the side-to-side and forward-and-backward motions involved in sewing a buttonhole.

Questions about buttonholers

What is buttonholers the plural of?
Buttonholers is the plural of buttonholer.

Words near buttonholers in the dictionary

  1. buttonhole
  2. buttonhole stitch
  3. buttonhole stitches
  4. buttonholed
  5. buttonholer
  6. buttonholers
  7. buttonholes
  8. buttonholing
  9. buttonholings
  10. buttonhook
  11. buttonhooked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buttonholers (page history and authors); buttonholer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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