buttonlike
adjEtymology From button + -like.
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Resembling a button.
- […] I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “-Epliogue”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- [He] was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.1922, E. E. Cummings, chapter 7, in The Enormous Room, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 153:
- Synonyms
- buttony