botoun
Middle English
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old French bouton, boton. See English button for more.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbotoun (plural botouns)
- A button or decorative protrusion on garments or tools.
- A bud, budset, or shoot; a newly-formed leaf.
- Something that is small or of little or no value or worth.
- c. 1340, Dan Michel, “Vridom”, in Ayenbite of Inwyt[1], page 86:
- Ac hy habbeþ hire herten zuo aꝛered ine god: þet hi ne pꝛayſeþ þe woꝛdle: bote ane botoun. and hi ne dꝛedeþ kyng. ne erl. […]
- But those who have their hearts inspired by God, who don't praise the world('s ways) even a bit and who don't fear kings, earls, […]
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editReferences
edit- “bǒtǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-5.