buttoned-up
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.81 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see button up.
Example Sentences
- "A short, stout, puffed-up little man in a high pot-hat and a buttoned-up frock-coat and a chest-protector beard was sitting up behind a stump[.]"
- "It should be obvious by now that most of what goes on in the Bulova commercial does not depend very much on an appeal to the rational part of the mind—the “logos” of Aristotle. If it were to depend on such an appeal to the reason, it might show the same woman, but dressed sensibly in a nice buttoned-up dress and wearing her glasses."