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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(now chiefly historical) A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes..
‘I'm sorry we are so late,’ he was saying. ‘We couldn't find a button-hook, so it took us a long time to button our boots.’
Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.
Yet the Bears never set up the deep patterns with a turn-in or a buttonhook[…].
Use buttonhook when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Buttonhook means (now chiefly historical) A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
‘I'm sorry we are so late,’ he was saying. ‘We couldn't find a button-hook, so it took us a long time to button our boots.’
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