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Definition of Button up
1. Verb. Refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent. "The children shut up when their father approached"
Definition of Button up
1. Verb. (transitive) To fasten with a button or buttons. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Button up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mountaineering by Clinton Thomas Dent (1892)
"The waistcoat pockets also should button up and have flaps. The coat, waistcoat,
and knickerbockers can be lined with flannel. The waistcoat certainly ought ..."
2. Math Games and Centers by Alfred Morgan, Jo Ellen Moore (1998)
"button up My Jacket Note: Use small objects such as buttons only with close adult
supervision. If you feel your students are not ready to use such small ..."
3. Here and Now Story Book: Two-to Seven Year Olds, Experimental Stories by Lucy Sprague Mitchell (1921)
"And mother would get the button-hook and then she'd button up the left shoe and
then she'd button up the right shoe. And all the time she was buttoning up ..."
4. Nature Displayed in Her Mode of Teaching Language to Man: Being a New and by Nicolas Gouin Dufief (1834)
"To button up. Briguer. To stand for. Cette affaire est trop importante pour ne
... It is excessively cold, do button up your coat. Connaissez-vous ceux qui ..."
5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"It, Ramsay: Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, button up, to (Stock
Exchange, American). When in a falling market a broker has made an ..."
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