shirt buttonn.

Brit.

/ˌʃəːt ˈbʌtn/, U.S.

/ˌʃərt ˈbətn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: shirt n., button n.

Etymology: < shirt n. + button n.

1. A small button pierced with thread holes and used as a fastening for shirts.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > part of > button or stud

shirt button1651

shirt stud1821

collar stud1873

1651 R. Verney in M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonwealth (1894) ii. 38 Blew Thread, Shirt Buttons and old White..Buttons.

1742 C. Carroll Let. 24 Nov. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1925) 20 178 Three or four Papers good shirt Buttons but not made on Wire.

1850 Morning Chron. 4 Nov. 171 The ordinary shirt buttons have to be drilled with two or four holes, as the pattern may direct.

1922 Vanity Fair Jan. 77/1 (caption) Impressive shirt buttons are correct when they are made in such simple designs as these of grey mother-of-pearl.

2003 E. Noble Reading Group 358 He never did his shirt buttons up, if I remember rightly.

2. English regional (chiefly southern). Usually in plural. Greater stitchwort, Rabelera (formerly Stellaria) holostea; the small white flowers of this plant. Also with modifier, in daddy's shirt buttons, devil's shirt buttons, gentlemen's shirt buttons.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > chickweeds and stitchworts

chicken meateOE

bird's-tonguea1300

stitchworta1300

chickenweedc1300

piglea1400

chickweed?a1425

craches1530

mouse-ear1578

all-bony1597

chickenwort1762

Stellaria1785

all bones1787

mouse-eared chickweed1789

cerastium1799

starwort1809

satin flower1836

adder's meat1853

thunder-flower1853

snap-jack1867

shirt button1880

1880 Monthly Packet Oct. 409 Local names of plants... Stellaria Holostea—Shirt-buttons, West Kent.

1893 Blyth Weekly News 24 June 6/2 The Stichwort or Shirt Button (Stellaria Holostea) which makes our hedge sides gay with its starry flowers.

1912 Bedfordshire Advertiser 3 May 6/2 This patch of Stitchwort—‘shirt-buttons’ some people call it from the size and colour of the flowers—grows along the moist hedge-bank with the hedge-parsley and yellow dead-nettle.

1965 Country Life 11 Feb. 283/1 East Anglian children dubbed it the Devil's Shirt Buttons.

1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 99/2 Greater Stitchwort,..Brassy buttons, Shirt buttons, Poor-man's-buttonhole, Daddy's shirt-buttons.

1998 Y. Verner Blooming Lawn iv. 41 Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea)—also known by the more evocative name of gentlemen's shirt buttons.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	shirt button
释义	shirt buttonn. Brit. /ˌʃəːt ˈbʌtn/, U.S. /ˌʃərt ˈbətn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: shirt n., button n. Etymology: < shirt n. + button n. 1. A small button pierced with thread holes and used as a fastening for shirts. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > part of > button or stud shirt button1651 shirt stud1821 collar stud1873 1651 R. Verney in M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonwealth (1894) ii. 38 Blew Thread, Shirt Buttons and old White..Buttons. 1742 C. Carroll Let. 24 Nov. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1925) 20 178 Three or four Papers good shirt Buttons but not made on Wire. 1850 Morning Chron. 4 Nov. 171 The ordinary shirt buttons have to be drilled with two or four holes, as the pattern may direct. 1922 Vanity Fair Jan. 77/1 (caption) Impressive shirt buttons are correct when they are made in such simple designs as these of grey mother-of-pearl. 2003 E. Noble Reading Group 358 He never did his shirt buttons up, if I remember rightly. 2. English regional (chiefly southern). Usually in plural. Greater stitchwort, Rabelera (formerly Stellaria) holostea; the small white flowers of this plant. Also with modifier, in daddy's shirt buttons, devil's shirt buttons, gentlemen's shirt buttons. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > chickweeds and stitchworts chicken meateOE bird's-tonguea1300 stitchworta1300 chickenweedc1300 piglea1400 chickweed?a1425 craches1530 mouse-ear1578 all-bony1597 chickenwort1762 Stellaria1785 all bones1787 mouse-eared chickweed1789 cerastium1799 starwort1809 satin flower1836 adder's meat1853 thunder-flower1853 snap-jack1867 shirt button1880 1880 Monthly Packet Oct. 409 Local names of plants... Stellaria Holostea—Shirt-buttons, West Kent. 1893 Blyth Weekly News 24 June 6/2 The Stichwort or Shirt Button (Stellaria Holostea) which makes our hedge sides gay with its starry flowers. 1912 Bedfordshire Advertiser 3 May 6/2 This patch of Stitchwort—‘shirt-buttons’ some people call it from the size and colour of the flowers—grows along the moist hedge-bank with the hedge-parsley and yellow dead-nettle. 1965 Country Life 11 Feb. 283/1 East Anglian children dubbed it the Devil's Shirt Buttons. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 99/2 Greater Stitchwort,..Brassy buttons, Shirt buttons, Poor-man's-buttonhole, Daddy's shirt-buttons. 1998 Y. Verner Blooming Lawn iv. 41 Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea)—also known by the more evocative name of gentlemen's shirt buttons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1651
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