1. buttonhole - Noun
2. buttonhole - Verb
The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI just lost a buttonhole. Steven Wright
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. William Makepeace Thackeray
The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould. Oswald Chambers
The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power. Andrew Marr
Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a brightcolored flower in his buttonhole. Mark Twain
McCormick labored to portray Hitler as more modest than his public persona might suggest: “In the country he has plastered with banners and insignia he wears only a small gold eagle in his buttonhole. Source: Internet