Meaning of buttony | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The manufacture of buttons.
   uncountable
2. A children’s game played with buttons.
   Scotland, uncountable

Examples

“Whenever we inquired of the village girls what their occupation was, almost invariably the quaint answer ‘We do buttony’ was given.”

“From this time onwards ‘buttony’, or making buttons, gradually became an important industry at which many people earned their livings.”

“[…] she busied herself in the front room, rustling about in Anne Kellaway’s box of buttony materials filled with rings of various sizes, chips of sheep horn for the Singletons, a ball of flax for shaping round buttons, bits of linen for covering them, both sharp and blunt needles, and several different colors and thicknesses of thread.”

“Catastrophically for Dorset buttony, Ashton's buttonmaking machine was invented in 1850 and proudly exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. As a consequence of this invention, the Dorset cottage industry collapsed virtually overnight […]”

“She collected all her treasures, the bottle with the brass top that she had got from Shovel’s old girl, […] the pretty buttons Tommy had won for her at the game of buttony, the witchy marble, […] these and some other precious trifles she made a little bundle of and set off for Double Dykes with them, intending to leave them at the door.”

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