Buttonhole has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | He stuck a flower in his buttonhole. | |
| 2. | He always wears a flower in his buttonhole. | |
| 3. | Tom had a flower in his buttonhole. | |
| 4. | Tom stuck a flower in his buttonhole. | |
| 5. | It was bound, Clarissa used to think, to end in some awful tragedy; her death; her martyrdom; instead of which she had married, quite unexpectedly, a bald man with a large buttonhole who owned, it was said, cotton mills at Manchester. |