buttonhole

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
2. (British) A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
3. (British, attributive) A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
4. A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel.
5. The mouth, nose or eyes of a tiny appearance.
6. (obsolete) vagina, coin slot.
7. The butthole (anus).

Verb

1. (colloquial, transitive) To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
2. (ambitransitive) To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
3. (transitive) To sew by buttonhole stitch.
4. (archaic, transitive) To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally).
5. (rare, transitive) To apply a flowery formation in.
6. (archaic, intransitive, rare) To attain buttonhole-like formations on cutting.

Έννοιες

κουμπότρυπα

Συνώνυμα

button hole

eyelet

lobby

pester

boutonniere

opening

brooch

posy

staple

stitch

clasp

eye

👁️

tab

Μεταφράσεις

boutonnière

asola

Knopfloch

ojal

occhiello

knoopsgat

casa de botão

ilik

trau

casa

🏠

interpeller

mêjî

agrafe

Schlitzlochung

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

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.