buttonhole

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

casa de botão

casa

🏠

assediar

botoeira

lapela

Sinônimos

button hole

eyelet

lobby

pester

boutonniere

opening

brooch

posy

staple

stitch

clasp

eye

👁️

tab

Traduções

boutonnière

asola

Knopfloch

ojal

occhiello

κουμπότρυπα

knoopsgat

ilik

trau

interpeller

mêjî

Schlitzlochung

Brosche

Spange

Etimologia (Inglês)

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.