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Webster 1913 Edition
Unbutton
Un-but′ton
,Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ button
.] To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unbutton
UNBUT'TON
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
unbutton
unbutton
English
Verb
unbutton (third-person singular simple present unbuttons, present participle unbuttoning, simple past and past participle unbuttoned)
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 2
- Being now too high wound up to bear a delay, he unbutton'd, and drawing out the engine of love-assaults, drove it currently, as at a ready-made breach
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 2
- (transitive) To open something by undoing its buttons
Translations
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