Crossword-Solution: BUTTONHOLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Buttonhole | n. | The hole or loop in which a button is caught. |
| Buttonhole | v. t. | To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “BUTTONHOLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Suit jacket aperture | 1 answer |
| Small slit in a coat lapel | 1 answer |
| Slot on a shirt | 1 answer |
| Place to sport flower | 1 answer |
| Latch onto in a way | 1 answer |
| Detain for a talk | 1 answer |
| Detain (someone) in conversation. | 1 answer |
| Corner for talking purposes | 1 answer |
| Corner for conversation. | 1 answer |
| boutonniere | 2 answers |
| Back into a corner | 3 answers |
| Latch onto | 7 answers |
| Bouton-niere site | 11 answers |
| floral decoration | 16 answers |
| COAT part | 18 answers |
| Fragrance | 21 answers |
| Slit | 29 answers |
| detain | 34 answers |
| accost | 35 answers |
| Odour | 57 answers |
| Ornamentation | 70 answers |
| Opener | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BUTTONHOLE (5)
But before they left the garden the Tin Woodman, who was fond of flowers, chanced to espy a big red rose growing upon a bush; so he plucked the flower and fastened it securely in the tin buttonhole of his tin bosom.
That flower which he is wearing in his buttonhole is a rose—a white rose, a York rose—and will serve to remind us of the War of the Roses, and that the white one was the winning color when Edward got the throne and dispossessed the Lancastrian dynasty.
Like the young men of the party, he wore a secret society emblem in the buttonhole of his black frock-coat.
Giovanelli was very pale: on this occasion he had no flower in his buttonhole; he seemed to wish to say something.
The want of a suitable escort had hitherto rendered this pleasure inaccessible; but no escort now, for such an expedition, could have been more suitable than their devoted young countryman, whose mission in life, it might almost be said, was to find chairs for ladies, and who appeared on the stroke of half-past five with a white camellia in his buttonhole.
Quotes with BUTTONHOLE (3)
All the systems which explain so precisely why the world is as it is and why it can never be otherwise, have always called forth in me the same kind of uneasiness one has when face to face with the regulations displayed under the glaring lights of a prison cell. Even if one had been born in prison and had never seen the stars or seas or woods, one would instinctively know of timeless freedom in unlimited space. My evil star, however, had fated me to be born in times when only…
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
But there is a way of despising the dandelion which is not that of the dreary pessimist, but of the more offensive optimist. It can be done in various ways; one of which is saying, "You can get much better dandelions at Selfridge's," or "You can get much cheaper dandelions at Woolworth's." Another way is to observe with a casual drawl, "Of course nobody but Gamboli in Vienna really understands dandelions," or saying that nobody would put up with the old-fashioned dandelion si…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1963–2008).