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button-quail |
button-shaped |
buttonball |
buttonbush |
buttoned |
buttoned-down
| buttoned-up
| buttonhole
| buttonhole stitch
| buttonhook
| buttonlike
buttoned-down
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective buttoned-down has 1 sense
- buttoned-down(s = adj.all) button-down, conservative - unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"
CIDE DICTIONARY
buttoned-down, adj.
conservatively formal and businesslike in dress and manner. [WordNet 1.5]
"a colorful character in the buttoned-down , dull-gray world of business."
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