Associations to the word «Buttonholer»

Wiktionary

BUTTONHOLER, noun. One who detains somebody in conversation against their will.
BUTTONHOLER, noun. An attachment for a sewing machine which automates the side-to-side and forward-and-backward motions involved in sewing a buttonhole.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne