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button
mid-13c. (implied in
botouner
"button-maker"), from O.Fr.
boton
(Fr.
bouton
) "a button, bud" (12c.), from
bouter, boter
"to thrust" (see
butt
(v.)). Thus a
button
is, etymologically, something that pushes up, or thrusts out. The verb is late 14c.
