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Gammerstang commented on the word make buttons
(verb) - To make buttons means to look sorry and sad perhaps because button-making is a sorry occupation. Not to have all one's buttons, to be deficient in intellect.
--John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887
January 19, 2018