a. [f. TIGHT a. + -ISH1.]

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  1.  Rather tight or close-fitting.

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1775.  S. J. Pratt, Liberal Opin., xcvi. (1783), III. 202. Are they [the clothes] not a little tightish?

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1848.  Curzon, Visits Monast., I. v. 58. It comes up high upon the neck, and has tightish sleeves.

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1893.  Quiller-Couch, Delectable Duchy, 223. In a tightish uniform.

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  b.  as adv. Somewhat tightly.

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1767.  J. Ferguson, Lect., Suppl., 31. The top goes on tightish, but must be made to turn round on the cylinder.

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  2.  Somewhat difficult to accomplish, attain to, etc.; rather ‘stiff’ or difficult.

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1786.  Mrs. A. M. Bennett, Juvenile Indiscretions, III. 207. Amounted to a pretty tightish sum.

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1801.  trans. Gabrielli’s Myst. Husb., II. 96. They have had a tightish day’s work.

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1832.  Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXXI. 859. ’Tis a tightish swim across.

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1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 418. I had a tightish ride to get over before I caught the mail.

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