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You won't go to jail for crossing the street against the light.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious." ], "id": "en-uptight-en-adj-NAvOh-g1", "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious." ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "81 7 7 5", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "geremd" }, { "_dis1": "81 7 7 5", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "kireä" }, { "_dis1": "81 7 7 5", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "niuhottava" }, { "_dis1": "81 7 7 5", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "ahdasmielinen" }, { "_dis1": "81 7 7 5", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "coincé" }, { "_dis1": "81 7 7 5", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "verklemmt" }, { "_dis1": "81 7 7 5", "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "nápnat", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "на́пнат" }, { "_dis1": "81 7 7 5", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "spięty" }, { "_dis1": "81 7 7 5", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "čopornyj", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "чопорный" }, { "_dis1": "81 7 7 5", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "činnyj", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "чинный" }, { "_dis1": "81 7 7 5", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "naprjažennyj", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "напряженный" } ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "19 19 0 34 28", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "People", "orig": "en:People", "parents": [ "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "Emotionally repressed; 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You won't go to jail for crossing the street against the light.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious." ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ] }, { "glosses": [ "Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense." ] }, { "categories": [ "English colloquialisms", "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "He came from a very uptight religious background, but you wouldn't know that now!", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "Sexually repressed." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial) Sexually repressed." ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ] }, { "categories": [ "English colloquialisms", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1987, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I", "text": "Withnail: Just because the best tailoring you’ve ever seen is above your fucking appendix doesn’t mean anything. / Danny: Don’t get uptight with me, man.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "Unfriendly and rude." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial) Unfriendly and rude." ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ʌpˈtaɪt/" }, { "rhymes": "-aɪt" }, { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-uptight.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/80/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-uptight.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-uptight.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/80/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-uptight.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-uptight.wav.ogg", "tags": [ "Southern-England" ], "text": "Audio (Southern England)" }, { "enpr": "ŭp-tīt'" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "geremd" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "kireä" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "niuhottava" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "ahdasmielinen" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "coincé" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "verklemmt" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "nápnat", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "на́пнат" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "spięty" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "čopornyj", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "чопорный" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "činnyj", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "чинный" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "naprjažennyj", "sense": "(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious", "word": "напряженный" } ], "word": "uptight" } { "categories": [ "English 2-syllable words", "English adjectives", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English entries with topic categories using raw markup", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with IPA pronunciation", "English terms with audio links", "Rhymes:English/aɪt", "Rhymes:English/aɪt/2 syllables", "en:People" ], "forms": [ { "form": "uptights", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "uptight (plural uptights)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "anal retentive" }, { "word": "petty bourgeois" }, { "word": "narrow minded" }, { "word": "stuffy" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English colloquialisms" ], "glosses": [ "An uptight person." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial) An uptight person." ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ʌpˈtaɪt/" }, { "rhymes": "-aɪt" }, { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-uptight.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/80/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-uptight.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-uptight.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/80/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-uptight.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-uptight.wav.ogg", "tags": [ "Southern-England" ], "text": "Audio (Southern England)" }, { "enpr": "ŭp-tīt'" } ], "word": "uptight" }
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