Meaning

4 senses

  1. One who buttons something.

  2. Any device used to fasten buttons to a garment.

  3. A manufacturer of buttons.

  4. (dated, slang)A con man's apprentice.

Origin

From button + -er.

From button + -er.

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Forms

plural: buttoners
Singularbuttoner
Pluralbuttoners

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
buttockbuttonA1buttonholebuttress
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