2007-10-14 04:51:59 · 18 answers · asked by Chav Princess 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
buttons are cute when yer un-doing them with yer tongue.That reminds me of a fetish i had in the nineties about women in business suits.
I think i need coffee and bed
2007-10-14 05:05:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
: : : CUTE AS A BUTTON - "cute, charming, attractive, almost always with the connotation of being small, 1868 (from the original 1731 English meaning of 'acute' or clever). Cute as a bug's ear, 1930; cute as a bug in a rug, 1942; cute as a button, 1946. Cute and keen were two of the most overused slang words of the late 1920s and 1930s." From "Listening to America" by Stuart Berg Flexner (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1992.) : : : Flexner may have an idea about the word "cute," but he provides no guidance on the question of how a button can be cute. The key to the issue is that it is not the button on a shirt that is meant here, but a flower bud seen in the popular name of small flowers, such as bachelor's button (q.v. "button" (n) in the OED, meanings 2 and 3). : : Oh, cute as a flower bud. Makes sense. : : The British version is "bright as a button". This makes sense if you think of a polished brass button. The phrase is really only ever used of small people - you'd say that a child, or maybe a small dog, was as bright as a button, but you'd never say it of a six-foot man. So the image is of a small sparky thing. To expand on this person's explaination, the British version, "Bright as a button." I can see them using this because they call their anodized buttons, "Stay bright buttons."
2016-05-22 10:22:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now I've seen some pretty cute buttons!
2007-10-14 04:55:35 · answer #3 · answered by Georgia Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take it as a nice compliment.
I have seen some cute buttons.
2007-10-14 04:57:54 · answer #4 · answered by StarShine G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means you are so cutesy and little that they can put you in their pocket. It refers to someone pre-teens or that they look like pre-teen age.
I suppose buttons are very unique and fashionable, so yes they are 'cute'.
It IS a compliment but also condescending if you are not a child. It can then be used in this instance as a PUT-DOWN.
2007-10-14 05:09:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably should be "Cute as the word 'button'", because the word button is kind of cute.
2007-10-14 04:55:39 · answer #6 · answered by Mickey Mouse Spears 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is a compliment, but the whole thing has been messed up for some time and no one had bothered to fix it. Originally it was "as cute a *butt on* some hot chick."
2007-10-14 05:05:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've always wondered the same thing...
How could a human, be compared to a friggin' button?
Button's aren't cute, actually, they're annoying, they're always falling off my clothes...
So, am I as annoying as a button?...
2007-10-14 04:58:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha ha my grandpa used to say that all the time, I used to think he had lost his marbles cause I ain't ever seen a cute button.
2007-10-14 05:12:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Back in the day when buttons were made of pearl ETC i think thats where this comes from.
2007-10-14 04:55:59 · answer #10 · answered by Lucky Man 2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋