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Definition of Billy buttons
1. Noun. Any of various plants of the genus Craspedia grown for their downy foliage and globose heads of golden flowers; Australia and New Zealand.
Definition of Billy buttons
1. Noun. The plains plover daisy, ''Ixiolaena brevicompta'', found in floodplains of Queensland and New South Wales; it is poisonous to sheep ¹
2. Noun. Any of several flowering plants, of the genus ''Craspedia'' (but especially ''Craspedia globosa''), native to Australia, having globes of yellow flowers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billy Buttons
Literary usage of Billy buttons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1897)
"MR billy buttons. By Walter Lecky. New York : Benziger Bros. $1.25. Mr. Lecky has
evidently not as yet become completely conscious of the importance of the ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"to a company of old soldiers ; and "The Old Lieutenant and His Son" and " Billy
Buttons" show how sympathetically he could limn old salts. ..."
3. The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900: Being the Full Titles, with (1897)
"The story is chiefly told by the local doctor and " billy buttons," the guide.
It relates to the people and their simple histories and experiences. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"billy buttons, Slower-heads of Arctium Lappa, L., or Burdock. The boys are fond
of sticking them down the front ..."
5. Handlingar (1903)
"'contemptuous for a journeyman tailor' FA., and in the sense of 'a simpleton'
dial, billy-buttons, ..."
6. Bygone Devonshire by Hilderic Friend (1898)
"... and billy buttons, because the same burrs are stuck by boys down their coat
fronts to give them the appearance of a page or man in buttons. ..."
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