"tight-assed" meaning in All languages combined

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      "form": "more tight-assed",
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          "ref": "1982, Patricia Burstein, chapter 12, in Family Holiday,, New York: William Morrow, page 182",
          "text": "Assemblyperson Baker, as she probably liked to be addressed, had all the lyricism and sensuality of Betty Crocker. She was so tight-assed that she even wore stockings in the tropics.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Robert Harris, chapter 4, in The Fear Index, London: Hutchinson, pages 63–64",
          "text": "A group of pedestrians waited on the corner opposite for the lights to change even though there was no traffic coming in either direction. After watching them for a while Hoffmann muttered savagely, ‘The goddam tight-assed Swiss...’",
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        "Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours."
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        "(informal, derogatory) Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours."
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          "word": "conservative"
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          "word": "conventional"
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        {
          "word": "inhibited"
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          "word": "repressed"
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        {
          "word": "straight-laced"
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          "word": "stuffy"
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          "word": "uptight"
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          "ref": "1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Minerva, published 1991, page 62",
          "text": "[…] Gottlieb obviously wishes, above all else in life, that he could turn himself into that miserable don and learn to write his spiteful-playful tight-assed vinegar prose.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Debra Di Blasi, “Prayers of an Accidental Nature”, in Prayers of an Accidental Nature: Stories, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, page 178",
          "text": "It was a typical old brownstone, built in the fifties and since then maintained with tight-assed economy—a little paint every year, a new lock on the door, perhaps a new piece of plumbing here and there as the old rusted out.",
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        "Excessively concerned with unimportant details; obsessively precise."
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          "Excessively",
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          "unimportant",
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        "(informal, derogatory) Excessively concerned with unimportant details; obsessively precise."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "anal"
        },
        {
          "word": "fastidious"
        },
        {
          "word": "fussy"
        },
        {
          "word": "finicky"
        },
        {
          "word": "hair-splitting"
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        {
          "word": "nitpicky"
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          "word": "punctilious"
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        "derogatory",
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        {
          "ref": "1971, James Schevill, Lovecraft’s Follies, Chicago: Swallow Press, Act I, Scene 3, p. 45",
          "text": "We have learned how—what do you call it?—tight-assed the white man is with his money.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Melvin Dixon, Vanishing Rooms,, New York: Dutton, page 28",
          "text": "Cuddles is the one in the money. Ain’t tight-assed about it either, which is why we hang together.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Reluctant to spend money."
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        "(informal, derogatory) Reluctant to spend money."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "miserly"
        },
        {
          "word": "stingy"
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        {
          "word": "tight-fisted"
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        "derogatory",
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        {
          "ref": "1994, Janet Evanovich, chapter 1, in One for the Money, New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, page 3",
          "text": "He had an eagle tattooed on his chest, a tight-assed, narrow-hipped swagger, and a reputation for having fast hands and clever fingers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2015, Kimberli A. Bindschatel, Operation Tropical Affair, Traverse City, MI: Turning Leaf, Chapter 8, p. 78,\nWe could pop down to the Caymans. Drink some margaritas, watch those tight-assed college boys play beach volleyball."
        }
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        "Having firm or clenched buttocks."
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        "(informal) Having firm or clenched buttocks."
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          "text": "1967, Wright Morris, In Orbit, Chapter 6, in Two for the Road, Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1994, p. 264,\nThere is no room in his tight-assed pants for his dangling hands."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, George Pelecanos, chapter 7, in Shoedog,, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 56",
          "text": "[…] the women wore hot pants and halter tops and tight-assed skirts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Robert Littell, chapter 8, in Young Philby,, New York: Thomas Dunne Books, page 164",
          "text": "The waiters were all beautiful Portuguese Nancy boys dressed in tight French sailor suits—striped shirts, tight-assed bell bottoms, a blue cap with a red pompadour—and reeking of delectably cheap perfume.",
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        "Fitting tightly in the area covering the buttocks."
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        "(informal, of an article of clothing) Fitting tightly in the area covering the buttocks."
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      "word": "tight-arsed"
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  "word": "tight-assed"
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        {
          "ref": "1975, Theodore V. Olsen, chapter 3, in Track the Man Down, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 35",
          "text": "When he’d stopped at a saloon for a glass of skullbuster, the bar-keep had been so tight-assed snotty about serving him that he’d taken the one drink in a gulp and then cleared out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Norma Fox Mazer, Harry Mazer, chapter 1, in The Solid Gold Kid,, New York: Dell, page 7",
          "text": "they take themselves too tight-assed serious here",
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        "In an uptight or fastidious way."
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        "(informal, derogatory) In an uptight or fastidious way."
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          "ref": "1982, Patricia Burstein, chapter 12, in Family Holiday,, New York: William Morrow, page 182",
          "text": "Assemblyperson Baker, as she probably liked to be addressed, had all the lyricism and sensuality of Betty Crocker. She was so tight-assed that she even wore stockings in the tropics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Robert Harris, chapter 4, in The Fear Index, London: Hutchinson, pages 63–64",
          "text": "A group of pedestrians waited on the corner opposite for the lights to change even though there was no traffic coming in either direction. After watching them for a while Hoffmann muttered savagely, ‘The goddam tight-assed Swiss...’",
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        "Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours."
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        "(informal, derogatory) Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours."
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          "word": "conservative"
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        {
          "word": "conventional"
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        {
          "word": "inhibited"
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          "word": "straight-laced"
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          "ref": "1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Minerva, published 1991, page 62",
          "text": "[…] Gottlieb obviously wishes, above all else in life, that he could turn himself into that miserable don and learn to write his spiteful-playful tight-assed vinegar prose.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Debra Di Blasi, “Prayers of an Accidental Nature”, in Prayers of an Accidental Nature: Stories, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, page 178",
          "text": "It was a typical old brownstone, built in the fifties and since then maintained with tight-assed economy—a little paint every year, a new lock on the door, perhaps a new piece of plumbing here and there as the old rusted out.",
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        "Excessively concerned with unimportant details; obsessively precise."
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        "(informal, derogatory) Excessively concerned with unimportant details; obsessively precise."
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          "word": "anal"
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          "word": "fastidious"
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          "ref": "1971, James Schevill, Lovecraft’s Follies, Chicago: Swallow Press, Act I, Scene 3, p. 45",
          "text": "We have learned how—what do you call it?—tight-assed the white man is with his money.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Melvin Dixon, Vanishing Rooms,, New York: Dutton, page 28",
          "text": "Cuddles is the one in the money. Ain’t tight-assed about it either, which is why we hang together.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Reluctant to spend money."
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        "(informal, derogatory) Reluctant to spend money."
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          "word": "miserly"
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          "ref": "1994, Janet Evanovich, chapter 1, in One for the Money, New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, page 3",
          "text": "He had an eagle tattooed on his chest, a tight-assed, narrow-hipped swagger, and a reputation for having fast hands and clever fingers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2015, Kimberli A. Bindschatel, Operation Tropical Affair, Traverse City, MI: Turning Leaf, Chapter 8, p. 78,\nWe could pop down to the Caymans. Drink some margaritas, watch those tight-assed college boys play beach volleyball."
        }
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        "(informal) Having firm or clenched buttocks."
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          "text": "1967, Wright Morris, In Orbit, Chapter 6, in Two for the Road, Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1994, p. 264,\nThere is no room in his tight-assed pants for his dangling hands."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, George Pelecanos, chapter 7, in Shoedog,, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 56",
          "text": "[…] the women wore hot pants and halter tops and tight-assed skirts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Robert Littell, chapter 8, in Young Philby,, New York: Thomas Dunne Books, page 164",
          "text": "The waiters were all beautiful Portuguese Nancy boys dressed in tight French sailor suits—striped shirts, tight-assed bell bottoms, a blue cap with a red pompadour—and reeking of delectably cheap perfume.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "Fitting tightly in the area covering the buttocks."
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        "(informal, of an article of clothing) Fitting tightly in the area covering the buttocks."
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          "ref": "1975, Theodore V. Olsen, chapter 3, in Track the Man Down, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 35",
          "text": "When he’d stopped at a saloon for a glass of skullbuster, the bar-keep had been so tight-assed snotty about serving him that he’d taken the one drink in a gulp and then cleared out.",
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        "(informal, derogatory) In an uptight or fastidious way."
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