buttonholing
Speech parts
1. buttonholing - Noun
2. buttonholing - Verb
Meaning
buttonholing
present participle of buttonhole
buttonholing (countable and uncountable, plural buttonholings)
The act of detaining someone in conversation against his or her will.
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Examples
Nearly 40 years ago, on the ferry from Liverpool to Dublin, I hurled one of Burgess's Enderby novels into the Irish Sea, unable to bear another word. I have thought of him ever since as a pretentious windbag, a buttonholing bore whose writing had energy but no vitality.