Definitions
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- noun slang, mildly vulgar Someone who does not know how to have
fun , or who is so worried aboutinsignificant things as toruin any fun that anyone around them may be having. - noun slang, mildly vulgar Someone who is
stingy , or who is tight with money.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I suppose it's too much to ask from a pompous, arrogant, and self-promoting tightass like Mr. Gingrich, but one of the many saving graces of America is that it is a diverse nation with a lot of different cultures, ideals, and belief systems.
Religious Education 2009
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Not to be a tightass about it, but I think that my korean friends would privately get uptight about their alphabet being called “chinese characters,” the same way Italians would get uptight if you called their language “Mexican.”
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Sarah Palin is a dangerous theocrat who would be a great VP for all of us if we were all born-again Christians with tightass reading tastes.
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I occasionally get emails about my religious essays, telling me what a tightass I am and how I must be repressed and hate sex.
The Awkward Fame 2006
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With all the gringos down here for the winter with their tightass wives, it should of done good.
Going for a Mexican ride - an excerpt from the book: Agave Marias 2006
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With all the gringos down here for the winter with their tightass wives, it should of done good.
Going for a Mexican ride - an excerpt from the book: Agave Marias 2006
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Actually, it affirms the need for these ignorant tightass busybodies to get their minds off sex and start thinking about ensuring that everybody in this country has the same rights as everybody else.
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As a privileged white guy with mostly white friends and colleagues it rings a little false to say that I am those people, but sometimes I feel more comfortable with them than I do with all the tightass doctors and faculty at the University.
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Why must you insist on being such a control-freak tightass?
CLOUDCAT - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Slavko Czernyk hunkers down tonight in this old clawfoot bathtub because his tightass landlord still hasn't turned on the heat and this is the only way to get warm.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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