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caring a button

caring a button is the present participle and gerund 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 caring a button

What is caring a button the present participle and gerund of?
Caring a button is the present participle and gerund of care a button.

Words near caring a button in the dictionary

  1. carinderia
  2. carinderias
  3. carine
  4. carines
  5. caring
  6. caring a button
  7. caring a fig
  8. caring a jackstraw
  9. caring a monkey's
  10. caring a whit
  11. caring for

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