tight-arse n.
1. (orig. US) a mean person, a skinflint, thus attrib.
![]() | Saved Scene vi: len: [...] Give us a snout. fred: No. len: Tight arse. | |
![]() | Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 129: TIGHT ARSE — A stingie or mean person. | |
![]() | Guardian 27 Aug. 16/6: Baker the [...] tight-arse Edinburgh lawyer. | |
![]() | (con. 1920s) Legs 142: You’re gonna freeze your nuts off for a lousy handout from some tight-ass who’ll hand you a half buck and figure he’s doing you a favor. | |
![]() | Sydney Morn. Herald 5 Jan. 13/3: ‘I am a renowned tight-arse — even if I was rich and famous I’d still live like a peasant’. | |
![]() | Miseducation of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (2004) 150: He thinks it’s too much, the focking tightorse. | |
![]() | Sydney Morning Herald (Aus.) 6 Jan. n.p.: So here’s a tentative guide to Sydney teenspeak: [...] Tightass (one who won’t hand out money hand over fist). | |
![]() | Devil All the Time 107: ‘The tight ass won’t hire no extra help’. |
2. (also tight-butt) a puritan, a moral conservative; also as adj. [from sense 1].
![]() | Puberty Blues 88: Garry didn’t hassle me. I’d say no and he’d shut up. But as I didn’t want to be a tight-arse it couldn’t go on like this forever. | |
![]() | Fort Apache, The Bronx 167: This tight ass is makin’ a career move on our backs. | |
![]() | Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 116: I’d thought he was just another tight-butt old-head. | |
![]() | Stormy Weather 191: Tough guy? Tightass? What’s his deal? | |
![]() | Road Rage (1998) 300: I’m not saying a word to a right little tight-arse like you. | |
![]() | Plainclothes Naked (2002) 188: In spite of all the plates he had spinning [...] the only thing Manny could think about was Tina calling him a tight-ass. |
3. (Aus.) an irritating parent [f. sense 1].
![]() | Sydney Morning Herald (Aus.) 6 Jan. n.p.: So here’s a tentative guide to Sydney teenspeak: [...] Tightass (an irritating parent). |
4. a sexually attractive woman.
![]() | Tattoo of a Naked Lady 22: That tight-ass you been carrying on with is the boss’s wife. |
5. (US) an emotionally closed-down individual.
![]() | Last Kind Words 122: He probably thought that I was distant, cold, a tightass. |