buttoned-up

Definition of buttoned-up

adj.1.taciturn. Opposite of voluble.
2.conservative in professional manner; as, employers are looking for buttoned-up types.

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Britain, colloquialism, GB, Great Britain, taciturn, UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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