tight-assed
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tight-assed
adjective more tight-assed · most tight-assed · tight-arsed
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Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours.
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.
Similar: conservative, conventional, inhibited, repressed, straight-laced, stuffy, uptight · Opposite: easy-going, laid-back, relaxed
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Excessively concerned with unimportant details; obsessively precise.
[…] 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.
Similar: anal, fastidious, fussy, finicky, hair-splitting, nitpicky, punctilious
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Reluctant to spend money.
We have learned how—what do you call it?—tight-assed the white man is with his money.
Similar: miserly, stingy, tight-fisted
- Having firm or clenched buttocks. He had an eagle tattooed on his chest, a tight-assed, narrow-hipped swagger, and a reputation for having fast hands and clever fingers.
- Fitting tightly in the area covering the buttocks. 1967, Wright Morris, In Orbit, Chapter 6, in Two for the Road, Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1994, p. 264, There is no room in his tight-assed pants for his dangling hands.
adverb tight-arsed
- In an uptight or fastidious way. 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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