tight-assed

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours. derogatory,informal
    — 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.
  2. Excessively concerned with unimportant details; obsessively precise. derogatory,informal
    — […] 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.
  3. Reluctant to spend money. derogatory,informal
    — We have learned how—what do you call it?—tight-assed the white man is with his money.
  4. Having firm or clenched buttocks. informal
    — He had an eagle tattooed on his chest, a tight-assed, narrow-hipped swagger, and a reputation for having fast hands and clever fingers.
  5. Fitting tightly in the area covering the buttocks. informal
    — 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.
副词 adv.
  1. In an uptight or fastidious way. derogatory,informal,not-comparable
    — 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.

词形变化

more tight-assed comparative most tight-assed superlative tight-arsed alternative,UK tight-arsed alternative,UK

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