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Buttoned-up   Listen
adjective
buttoned-up  adj.  
1.
Taciturn. Opposite of voluble. (British colloquial)
2.
Conservative in professional manner; as, employers are looking for buttoned-up types.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Buttoned-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sober grace and self-possessed quiet gravity of that night of twenty-five years ago. Just then Louis Philippe had ennobled him, but the man's nature was written noble. Rather under the middle size, of compact close-buttoned-up figure, with ample dark hair falling loosely over his close-shaven face, I never saw upon any features so keenly intellectual such a soft and sweet gentility, and certainly never heard the French language spoken with the picturesque distinctness ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster


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


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