Tight = drunk

[Sarah Lang]

Eh, I know them both and I'm 26 and from Edmonton, AB (though that is
the "Texas of the North" ;) ).

S.

On May 1, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> I've known "tight" for "drunk" as well as "tight [i.e. filled to
> bursting with its host's blood]  as a tick" for "drunk as a skunk"
> since childhood - early '40's - and I'm a native of a dry county in
> East Texas. Maybe this is dying out and younger people don't learn it.
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> -Wilson
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> On 5/1/07, Your Name <ROSESKES at aol.com> wrote:
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>> A friend in Texas says she has never heard "tight" used as a
>> euphemism for
>> "drunk."  Here in upstate NY it's quite common.  Is the
>> expression  really that
>> regional?
>>
>> Rosemarie
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>> The people who are late are often so much  jollier than the people
>> who have
>> to wait for them.  -  E.V.  Lucas
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