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Laced mutton is old slang for a prostitute.
Beef and mutton is London Cockney rhyming slang for a glutton.
Button it is slang for shut up, or keep quiet.
1. A wooden cask or barrel. 2. The bottom end of a spar or other object ie. the butt end. 3. A cigarette.
Go for a burton is British slang for to be broken, useless, or lost; to die.
Richard Burton is London Cockney rhyming slang for curtain.
Sandwiches or similar pre-packed lunch alternative to school meals. Often lovingly prepared by ones mother - and often traded for more appetising alternatives. Chip butty/buttie = chips in a bap (bread roll) or sarnie (sandwich). (ed: these are damn yummy and I want one now! Tho' my favourite is cold mashed spuds with english salad cream.)
Cotton is Black−American slang for the hair of a woman's pudendum.
Gone for a Burton is slang for missing, broken.Gone for a Burton was British RAF slang for dead, shot−down.
Leg of mutton is London Cockney rhyming slang for button.
A button short is slang for intellectually deficient.
Verb phrs. 1. To break or become inoperative. Originally meaning dead or lost in action, from the RAF during the Second World War. The etymology is unproven although there are various speculations, including a connection with an advertising poster campaign for a beer of the period, namely Burtons. Most likely to be heard in the past sense, as 'gone for a burton'. E.g."I'm afraid we can't watch the football match tonight, my TV's gone for a burton." [1940s] 2. To fall over. E.g."I went for a burton and bruised my arms."
Bottom of a birdcage is British slang for very dry.
Button is slang for the clitoris. Button is slang for the chin.Button is slang for a section of the peyote cactus, ingested for its hallucinogenic effect.
Len Hutton is London Cockney rhyming slang for button.
Buttie is British slang for a sandwich.
Billy Button is ols British slang for a tailor.
Noun. See 'go for a burton'.
Butty is British slang for a sandwich. Butty is Welsh slong for a close friend.
Button one's lip is slang for be quiet, shut up.
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Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.
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Cloth made of cotton.
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Alt. of Bunion
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Like mutton; having a flavor of mutton.
v. i.
To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
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To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
imp. & p. p.
of Button
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Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
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Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
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Alt. of Bottone
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See Batten, and Baton.
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Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.
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Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
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See Baton, and Baston.
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Same as Bunyon.
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A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
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See Baton.
v. t.
To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.
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Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
v. t.
To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
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