tightsome

comparative more tightsome · superlative most tightsome

1. Characterised or marked by tightness.

   But thinkin' what a tightsome squeeze The vat wus fur the Agent's knees.

   2018, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, page 76

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   In the subway, squeezed and tightsome, (This is not to be a rhyme Of the subway. That I'll write some Other time.)

   1917, Franklin Pierce Adams, Weights and Measures, page 67

   I'll make the time in your tightsome schedule to stop and roll you 'round in these here leaves and give you some more learnin'.

   2012, Tony Kinton, Uncertain Horizons

comparative more tightsome · superlative most tightsome

1. nonstandardregionalIn a tightsome manner, tightly.

   Ye same lassies, tightsome bent, Come, sing along with me.

   1975, Walter Raymond Iley, Corbridge, Border village, page 169

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   Most of him rags, and all of him lean, And the belt round his belly drawn tightsome in, He lifted his peaked old grizzled head, And these were the very same words he said […]

   1914, The Canadian Magazine - Volume 42, page 673

   Dorrie is bumpin' on twenty-one. She has a right to her own choices. Holdin' a pretty butterfly too tightsome will only crush its wings so's it can't fly anymore.

   1997, LaJoyce Martin, The Artist's Quest, page 147