buttonhold

English

Etymology

From button +‎ hold.

Verb

buttonhold (third-person singular simple present buttonholds, present participle buttonholding, simple past and past participle buttonheld)

  1. Dated form of buttonhole (“to detain (a person) in conversation against their will”).
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