buttoning
buttoning is the present participle and gerund of button.
Meaning of button
Verb
button (third-person singular simple present buttons, present participle buttoning, simple past and past participle buttoned)
- To fasten with a button.
- He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat.1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 50, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC
- To be fastened by a button or buttons.
- The coat will not button.
- To stop talking.
Noun
buttoning (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
Forms of buttoning
| plural | buttonings |
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Phrases with buttoning
Questions about buttoning
- What does buttoning mean?
- Buttoning means a fastening with buttons.
- What is buttoning the present participle and gerund of?
- Buttoning is the present participle and gerund of button.
- What part of speech is buttoning?
- Buttoning is a noun.
- What is the plural of buttoning?
- The plural of buttoning is buttonings.
Words near buttoning in the dictionary
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