bouton

Meaning

1. button
2. bud
3. pimple, spot, zit

Concepts

button

pimple

bud

sore

spot

pustule

knob

boil

nipple

zit

doorknob

acne

lump

stud

sprout

furuncle

push button

carbuncle

blemish

nob

buttercup

collar stud

cufflink

rosebud

mole

papule

flower bud

door handle

abscess

blain

doorhandle

push

release

mamilla

mammilla

pap

teat

tit

hickey

blister

journal

pin

key

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bu.tɔ̃/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bouton, boton, from Old French bouton, boton (“button, bud”), from Vulgar Latin *bautōnem, accusative of bautō, from Frankish *bautō (“that which pushes up, bump, knob”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan (“to beat, push”). By surface analysis, bouter + -on. Cognate with Old High German bōzo (“bundle, flaxbundle”), Old Saxon bōto (“bunch or bundle of flaxs”). Compare Italian bottone, Spanish botón, which are borrowings of the French word.