Buttons

Definitions

1. Button.
2. The dung of sheep.
3. A remote control.
   colloquial
4. A boy servant, or page.
   colloquial, dated
5. A policeman.
   slang
6. Synonym of marbles (“sanity; mental faculties”).
   colloquial
7. A small South African plant of the genus Conophytum, with button-like succulent leaves covering its exterior.

Equivalents

Examples

“A Custum' Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons, "said the Jack , repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt , “when they comes betwixt him and his own⟳ light⟳[…]"”

“‘Go ahead, call⟳ the buttons. You'll get⟳ a big reaction from it.’”

“And we've got that other boy now, Ganesh something, I met him once, and I didn't understand⟳ a word he was saying, but the child seems to have⟳ all his buttons.”

“That night in his room before he'd left for New Orleans, Lewis had behaved like⟳ he didn't have⟳ all his buttons.”

“In the quaint vernacular of old Dad Peppin, Zion Jore might not have⟳ all his buttons, but he had more of what he did have⟳ than most men—more imagination to conceive a plot, more daring to carry⟳ it out, no fear to hamper him, […]”

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