button-down vs stuffy

button-down

adj
  • Conservative; conventional; unimaginative. 

  • Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie. 

  • Serious; staid; businesslike. 

noun
  • A shirt with a button-down collar 

stuffy

adj
  • Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional. 

  • Stout; mettlesome; resolute. 

  • Stout; sturdy. 

  • Angry and obstinate; sulky. 

  • Poorly ventilated; partially plugged. 

noun
  • Synonym of stuffed toy 

How often have the words button-down and stuffy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )