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tieso.

stiff, rigid

5 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈtjeso/[ˈt̪je.so]

  1. stiff, rigid

    Me preocupa que sus codos estén tan tiesos, doctor.
    El material es demasiado tieso; necesitamos otro.

  2. starched, very formal

    Escribe con excelentes detalles, pero con un estilo tieso.

  3. strong-willed, stubborn

  4. frozen solid, rigid due to cold

    colloquial
    Dejaste tan atrás la leche en el estante del refrigerador que ahora está tiesa.

  5. erect, hard, stiff (having an erect penis; translates in some contexts to erection, boner, stiffy)

    slang
    Lo tengo tieso.

  6. dead

    colloquial
    Mira si está tieso.

  7. in shock, astonished

    colloquial
    Los dejaste tiesos cuando los apantallaste con tus rimas improvisadas.

  8. broke, skint (without money)

    colloquial
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Spanish teso, attested from the 1300s (in the Sumas de historia troyana, and later the Rimado de Palacio), inherited from Latin tēnsus. Compare the borrowed doublet tenso. Coromines & Pascual have Cristóbal de las Casas's Vocabulario de las lenguas española y toscana (1570) as their first known attestation with the diphthong -ie-, a development perhaps influenced by the conjugation él/ella tiende, of tender.

noun/ˈtjeso/[ˈt̪je.so]

  1. A snake eel

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Spanish teso, attested from the 1300s (in the Sumas de historia troyana, and later the Rimado de Palacio), inherited from Latin tēnsus. Compare the borrowed doublet tenso. Coromines & Pascual have Cristóbal de las Casas's Vocabulario de las lenguas española y toscana (1570) as their first known attestation with the diphthong -ie-, a development perhaps influenced by the conjugation él/ella tiende, of tender.

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