buttoned-upadj.

Brit.

/ˌbʌtndˈʌp/, U.S.

/ˌbətndˈəp/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: buttoned adj., up adv.¹

Etymology: < buttoned adj. + up adv.¹ With sense 4 compare earlier to button up 2 at button v. Phrasal verbs.

1. That is fastened up inside a buttoned garment. Also: having the buttons of one's clothing fastened, esp. tightly.

ΚΠ

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 193. ¶3 The close Minister is buttoned up, and the brave Officer open-breasted on these Occasions.

1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 212 The buttoned-up crosses..peeping out from the breast.

1852 L. F. Allen Rural Archit. 60 Dear me, why so buttoned up, as if you were going?

1889 L. B. Walford Sage of Sixteen 68 Off pattered her two little neat, buttoned-up feet.

1938 J. Erskine Start of Road iii. 63 He could take the pickpocket's view, could share the artist's delight in a skilful separation of a passerby from his buttoned-up money.

1951 M. Bradley Death for my Neighbor ii. 25 Both of them folded their arms across their buttoned-up chests.

2013 A. Jama-Everett Liminal People ix. 71 My aerial view of her now buttoned-up breasts.

2. Of a garment, collar, etc.: that has the button or buttons fastened.

ΚΠ

1753 Discoveries J. Poulter (ed. 2) 40 A hingg'd Dubb; button'd-up Pocket.

1776 Fine Gentleman's Etiquette 10 A button'd up coat, or a wry buckled shoe.

1813 Olio 26 June 174/2 His clothes were whole and buttoned up.

1869 R. F. Burton Let. 31 Aug. in Lett. from Paraguay (1870) 377 A fainting-fit caused by the heat of a buttoned-up uniform.

1909 D. Moore & F. G. Guggisberg We Two in W. Afr. iii. 28 He looked so small..in his miniature suit of khaki—a buttoned-up jacket and knee-breeches.

1992 Irish Times 15 June 9/6 A clever collar that looks well buttoned up or open.

2014 A. Jaquiery Lying Down Room 99 She was wearing a cross around her neck.., tucked away beneath her buttoned-up shirt.

a. Of the mouth, lips, or eyes: firmly closed.Frequently indicating reluctance to reveal emotion, express thoughts, etc. (see sense 3b).

ΚΠ

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxix. 177 Sir Charles addressed..her, with so polite a freedom; that she could not hold her shyness. Her brow cleared up... Her buttoned-up pretty mouth opened to a smile.

1836 M. Howitt Tales in Verse 12 How soft and easy she lies, Just between sleep and wake, With half buttoned-up eyes!

1917 R. Hichens In Wilderness iii. iv. 291 In London..you saw strangers all the time, strangers with hard, indifferent eyes and buttoned-up mouths.

1987 S. Turow Presumed Innocent xii. 108 My heart is knocking, and I fear that there is something fluttering and insipid in my expression... We should have a drink, she says. I nod with buttoned-up lips.

2012 S. McClary Desire & Pleasure in 17th-cent. Music v. 129 My principal task was to teach these recalcitrant Catholics..to perform hymns... They knew nothing of congregational singing. I persisted in trying; they persisted in sitting with buttoned-up mouths.

b. Of a person: reluctant to reveal emotion or to express thoughts freely; reserved, inhibited, or formal in manner or disposition; unforthcoming, repressed, prim.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective]

unspeakinga1382

speechless1390

mutec1400

dumb1406

silenta1425

peaceablec1425

secretc1440

of few wordsa1500

tongue-tied1529

mum1532

closec1540

strait-laced1546

tongue-dumb1556

incommunicable1568

sparing1568

inconversable1577

retentive1599

wordless1604

mumbudget1622

uncommunicable1628

monastica1631

word-bound1644

on (also upon) the reserve1655

strait-mouthed1664

oyster-like1665

incommunicative1670

mumchance1681

speechless1726

taciturnous1727

tongue-tacked1727

monosyllabic1735

silentish1737

untalkative1739

silentious1749

buttoned-up1767

taciturn1771

close as wax1772

untittletattling1779

reticent1825

voiceless1827

say-nothing1838

unremonstrant1841

still1855

unvocal1858

inexpansive186.

short-tongued1864

non-communicating1865

tight-lipped1876

unworded1886

chup1896

tongue-bound1906

shut-mouthed1936

zip-lipped1943

shtum1958

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adjective] > suppressed or restrained

suppressed1536

retent1568

self-restrained1700

buttoned-up1767

self-restraining1777

self-repressed1814

reserveful1827

self-repressing1849

withheld1914

1767 O. MacAllester Series Lett. Scheme Invasion Eng. II. lviii. 183 He added, that I was so buttoned up, or some such expression, that he did not know what to make of me.

1856 J. Kavanagh Rachel Gray xii. 196 The new lodger proved to be what Mr. Jones graphically termed ‘a very buttoned-up sort of chap’; a tall, dark, silent, and reserved man, who paid his rent every week.

1880 Cambr. Rev. 25 Feb. 61/1 The average German is certainly more accessible and sociable, less impregnably neutral, or ‘buttoned up’ than the more proper and conventional Englishman.

1946 M. Dickens Happy Prisoner viii. 158 Why is she so quiet and buttoned up?.. She should have more effervescence at her age: she should let herself go.

1957 Economist 2 Nov. 393/1 The British are notoriously bad..at human relationships; buttoned-up, standoffish.

2015 P. Weaver Blue Moon 335 She was rather buttoned-up, preferring to show her love..by what she did for them, rather than with hugs and kisses.

4. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Of an agreement or business transaction: concluded or completed successfully or definitively; finalized; (of a plan) decided upon, fixed, firm.

ΚΠ

1924 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. 12/7 All the discounting is being done and has been done largely by people who think the settlement is a buttoned-up proposition.

1957 Washington Post 28 Jan. a16/2 Workers will get automatic pay raises under previously signed pacts... Electrical manufacturing..and meat packing are among the buttoned-up agreements.

1972 H. Atkinson Most Savage Animal xxxviii. 307 This was a buttoned-up deal... This is organization, disciplined all down the line. They work them to a timetable.

1983 Financial Mail (Johannesburg) 14 Oct. 67/3 Several buttoned-up sales will probably have to be annulled.

2004 Automotive News (Nexis) 28 Feb. 19 I wouldn't say we have a totally buttoned-up plan. It is something we continue to talk about.

5. U.S. Esp. of an armoured vehicle: sealed or secured to the maximum degree against attack.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective] > arranged > successfully arranged or organized

well-arranged1578

well-orchestrated1941

buttoned-up1943

1943 Belton (Texas) Jrnl. 27 May 1/1 Sub-caliber firing at moving buttoned-up tanks will take place.

1970 Armor Nov. 33/1 Driver vision in both the open and buttoned-up modes is the best possible.

1993 J. Katz Death by Station Wagon (1994) xxi. 196 Aside from the obvious fact that some strange and deadly person or persons were on the loose, the cops had the town as buttoned up as the White House.

2010 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. 25 Mar. (Commentary section) Tens of thousands of American troops in staging areas..pull on their gas masks and protective suits and huddle in buttoned-up tanks and personnel carriers and bunkers.

Derivatives

ˌbuttoned-ˈupness n. the state or condition of being buttoned-up (in various senses).

ΚΠ

1858 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock in Welcome Guest 8 May 31/2 Boys whose extreme buttonedupness renders the fact of their having any shirts to put collars to, turn-down or stuck-up, grievously problematical.

1895 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 272 The marine again was somewhat hampered by the general buttoned-up-ness of his dress.

1907 Glenwood (Iowa) Opinion 15 Aug. 1/4 The selfishness, the fear of self-abnegation, the buttoned-up-ness of the single-blessedness bachelor was apt to lead to bad results.

2013 Church Times 7 June 31/2 His self-restraint, and buttoned-upness stem from early years of comparative recklessness, on which he turned his back.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	buttoned-up
释义	buttoned-upadj. Brit. /ˌbʌtndˈʌp/, U.S. /ˌbətndˈəp/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: buttoned adj., up adv.¹ Etymology: < buttoned adj. + up adv.¹ With sense 4 compare earlier to button up 2 at button v. Phrasal verbs. 1. That is fastened up inside a buttoned garment. Also: having the buttons of one's clothing fastened, esp. tightly. ΚΠ 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 193. ¶3 The close Minister is buttoned up, and the brave Officer open-breasted on these Occasions. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 212 The buttoned-up crosses..peeping out from the breast. 1852 L. F. Allen Rural Archit. 60 Dear me, why so buttoned up, as if you were going? 1889 L. B. Walford Sage of Sixteen 68 Off pattered her two little neat, buttoned-up feet. 1938 J. Erskine Start of Road iii. 63 He could take the pickpocket's view, could share the artist's delight in a skilful separation of a passerby from his buttoned-up money. 1951 M. Bradley Death for my Neighbor ii. 25 Both of them folded their arms across their buttoned-up chests. 2013 A. Jama-Everett Liminal People ix. 71 My aerial view of her now buttoned-up breasts. 2. Of a garment, collar, etc.: that has the button or buttons fastened. ΚΠ 1753 Discoveries J. Poulter (ed. 2) 40 A hingg'd Dubb; button'd-up Pocket. 1776 Fine Gentleman's Etiquette 10 A button'd up coat, or a wry buckled shoe. 1813 Olio 26 June 174/2 His clothes were whole and buttoned up. 1869 R. F. Burton Let. 31 Aug. in Lett. from Paraguay (1870) 377 A fainting-fit caused by the heat of a buttoned-up uniform. 1909 D. Moore & F. G. Guggisberg We Two in W. Afr. iii. 28 He looked so small..in his miniature suit of khaki—a buttoned-up jacket and knee-breeches. 1992 Irish Times 15 June 9/6 A clever collar that looks well buttoned up or open. 2014 A. Jaquiery Lying Down Room 99 She was wearing a cross around her neck.., tucked away beneath her buttoned-up shirt. 3. a. Of the mouth, lips, or eyes: firmly closed.Frequently indicating reluctance to reveal emotion, express thoughts, etc. (see sense 3b). ΚΠ 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxix. 177 Sir Charles addressed..her, with so polite a freedom; that she could not hold her shyness. Her brow cleared up... Her buttoned-up pretty mouth opened to a smile. 1836 M. Howitt Tales in Verse 12 How soft and easy she lies, Just between sleep and wake, With half buttoned-up eyes! 1917 R. Hichens In Wilderness iii. iv. 291 In London..you saw strangers all the time, strangers with hard, indifferent eyes and buttoned-up mouths. 1987 S. Turow Presumed Innocent xii. 108 My heart is knocking, and I fear that there is something fluttering and insipid in my expression... We should have a drink, she says. I nod with buttoned-up lips. 2012 S. McClary Desire & Pleasure in 17th-cent. Music v. 129 My principal task was to teach these recalcitrant Catholics..to perform hymns... They knew nothing of congregational singing. I persisted in trying; they persisted in sitting with buttoned-up mouths. b. Of a person: reluctant to reveal emotion or to express thoughts freely; reserved, inhibited, or formal in manner or disposition; unforthcoming, repressed, prim. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective] unspeakinga1382 speechless1390 mutec1400 dumb1406 silenta1425 peaceablec1425 secretc1440 of few wordsa1500 tongue-tied1529 mum1532 closec1540 strait-laced1546 tongue-dumb1556 incommunicable1568 sparing1568 inconversable1577 retentive1599 wordless1604 mumbudget1622 uncommunicable1628 monastica1631 word-bound1644 on (also upon) the reserve1655 strait-mouthed1664 oyster-like1665 incommunicative1670 mumchance1681 speechless1726 taciturnous1727 tongue-tacked1727 monosyllabic1735 silentish1737 untalkative1739 silentious1749 buttoned-up1767 taciturn1771 close as wax1772 untittletattling1779 reticent1825 voiceless1827 say-nothing1838 unremonstrant1841 still1855 unvocal1858 inexpansive186. short-tongued1864 non-communicating1865 tight-lipped1876 unworded1886 chup1896 tongue-bound1906 shut-mouthed1936 zip-lipped1943 shtum1958 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adjective] > suppressed or restrained suppressed1536 retent1568 self-restrained1700 buttoned-up1767 self-restraining1777 self-repressed1814 reserveful1827 self-repressing1849 withheld1914 1767 O. MacAllester Series Lett. Scheme Invasion Eng. II. lviii. 183 He added, that I was so buttoned up, or some such expression, that he did not know what to make of me. 1856 J. Kavanagh Rachel Gray xii. 196 The new lodger proved to be what Mr. Jones graphically termed ‘a very buttoned-up sort of chap’; a tall, dark, silent, and reserved man, who paid his rent every week. 1880 Cambr. Rev. 25 Feb. 61/1 The average German is certainly more accessible and sociable, less impregnably neutral, or ‘buttoned up’ than the more proper and conventional Englishman. 1946 M. Dickens Happy Prisoner viii. 158 Why is she so quiet and buttoned up?.. She should have more effervescence at her age: she should let herself go. 1957 Economist 2 Nov. 393/1 The British are notoriously bad..at human relationships; buttoned-up, standoffish. 2015 P. Weaver Blue Moon 335 She was rather buttoned-up, preferring to show her love..by what she did for them, rather than with hugs and kisses. 4. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Of an agreement or business transaction: concluded or completed successfully or definitively; finalized; (of a plan) decided upon, fixed, firm. ΚΠ 1924 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. 12/7 All the discounting is being done and has been done largely by people who think the settlement is a buttoned-up proposition. 1957 Washington Post 28 Jan. a16/2 Workers will get automatic pay raises under previously signed pacts... Electrical manufacturing..and meat packing are among the buttoned-up agreements. 1972 H. Atkinson Most Savage Animal xxxviii. 307 This was a buttoned-up deal... This is organization, disciplined all down the line. They work them to a timetable. 1983 Financial Mail (Johannesburg) 14 Oct. 67/3 Several buttoned-up sales will probably have to be annulled. 2004 Automotive News (Nexis) 28 Feb. 19 I wouldn't say we have a totally buttoned-up plan. It is something we continue to talk about. 5. U.S. Esp. of an armoured vehicle: sealed or secured to the maximum degree against attack. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective] > arranged > successfully arranged or organized well-arranged1578 well-orchestrated1941 buttoned-up1943 1943 Belton (Texas) Jrnl. 27 May 1/1 Sub-caliber firing at moving buttoned-up tanks will take place. 1970 Armor Nov. 33/1 Driver vision in both the open and buttoned-up modes is the best possible. 1993 J. Katz Death by Station Wagon (1994) xxi. 196 Aside from the obvious fact that some strange and deadly person or persons were on the loose, the cops had the town as buttoned up as the White House. 2010 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. 25 Mar. (Commentary section) Tens of thousands of American troops in staging areas..pull on their gas masks and protective suits and huddle in buttoned-up tanks and personnel carriers and bunkers. Derivatives ˌbuttoned-ˈupness n. the state or condition of being buttoned-up (in various senses). ΚΠ 1858 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock in Welcome Guest 8 May 31/2 Boys whose extreme buttonedupness renders the fact of their having any shirts to put collars to, turn-down or stuck-up, grievously problematical. 1895 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 272 The marine again was somewhat hampered by the general buttoned-up-ness of his dress. 1907 Glenwood (Iowa) Opinion 15 Aug. 1/4 The selfishness, the fear of self-abnegation, the buttoned-up-ness of the single-blessedness bachelor was apt to lead to bad results. 2013 Church Times 7 June 31/2 His self-restraint, and buttoned-upness stem from early years of comparative recklessness, on which he turned his back. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1711
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