ˈbuttons
[pl. of button n. used as a sing.]
1. A boy in buttons, a page. colloq.
| 1848 Thackeray Dinner at Timmins's i. ii. More than fourteen years older than little Buttons. 1855 Fraser's Mag. LI. 433 He was a tiger—‘a buttons’. 1879 Daily News 6 Mar. 5/6 The variety of domestic known as a ‘Buttons’. |
2. A popular name for the tansy and other plants: see button n. 3.