LekhoriLekhoriA hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel.
The usual cause of conjunctival buttonholes is penetration of the tissue by the tip of a sharp instrument […]
To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
He backed Mr. Lykins against an iron fence, buttonholed him, fastened him with his eye, like the ancient mariner, and proceeded to unfold his narrative as placidly and peacefully as if we were all stretched comfortably in a blossomy summer meadow instead of being persecuted by a wintry midnight tempest: […]
Originally buttonhold (“a loop of string to hold a button down”), but changed by folk etymology by influence of hole, By surface analysis, button + hole.
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To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
To sew by buttonhole stitch.