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cared a button

cared a button is the simple past and past participle of care a button.

Meaning of care a button

Verb

care a button (third-person singular simple present cares a button, present participle caring a button, simple past and past participle cared a button)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To care (at all).
    • […] the filthy and foule desire of gaine preuailed with one of the garrison, a most wretched and desperate villaine of all men liuing to be abhorred: who being corrupted by the large and perilous offers of Ottoman, did not care a button for the safetie of his citizens, of his countrey, nor of his...1596, Marin Barleti, translated by Zachary Jones, The Historie of George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albanie, London: William Ponsonby, Book 5, p. 180
    Synonyms:
    becare, bother, care, concern oneself, heed, mind, reck, trouble oneself, worry

Questions about cared a button

What is cared a button the simple past and past participle of?
Cared a button is the simple past and past participle of care a button.

Words near cared a button in the dictionary

  1. Careby
  2. Careby Aunby and Holywell
  3. carecloth
  4. carecloths
  5. cared
  6. cared a button
  7. cared a fig
  8. cared a jackstraw
  9. cared a monkey's
  10. cared a whit
  11. cared for

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