closemouthed

English

Etymology

From close +‎ mouthed.

Adjective

closemouthed (comparative more closemouthed, superlative most closemouthed)

  1. reticent, secretive or uncommunicative
    • 1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as found:
      As much so as possible; they have hardly a way that you would like, my dear ma'am; and are as closemouthed as if they were afraid of committing themselves.
    • 2001, C. R. Anderegg, Sierra Hotel: flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam:
      Instructors were notoriously closemouthed about their gunnery techniques.

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