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Buttoned-up   /bˈətənd-əp/   Listen
Buttoned-up

adjective
1.
(British colloquial) not inclined to conversation.
2.
Conservative in professional manner.





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"Buttoned-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... door that form in the gray, buttoned-up overcoat, with the small hat, and pale, stony face, was the Emperor Napoleon's. "I come to bid you farewell," he said, stepping slowly and calmly to ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach


Words linked to "Buttoned-up" :   conservative, taciturn, U.K., United Kingdom, colloquialism, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, UK, Britain


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