agarrado

adj.

1 stingy, miserly, mean.

2 clutched.

past part.

past participle of spanish verb: agarrar.

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agarrado

► participio pasado

1→ {{link=agarrar}}agarrar

► adjetivo

1 familiar stingy, tight

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FRASEOLOGÍA

bailar agarrado to dance cheek to cheek

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ADJ

1) mean, stingy

2)

baile agarrado — slow dance

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I

-da adjetivo

a) [ser] (fam) (tacaño) tightfisted (colloq)

b) [estar] (CS fam) (enamorado) in love

está muy agarrado de ella — he's crazy about her (colloq)

II

-da masculino, femenino (fam) (tacaño) skinflint (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq)

III

adverbio

bailar agarrado — to dance closely

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= stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], tight-fisted, miser, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad, cheapskate.

Ex. All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.

Ex. The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.

Ex. If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex. Most of these cheapskates will not come right out and tell you that they don't want to pay anything for your software.

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I

-da adjetivo

a) [ser] (fam) (tacaño) tightfisted (colloq)

b) [estar] (CS fam) (enamorado) in love

está muy agarrado de ella — he's crazy about her (colloq)

II

-da masculino, femenino (fam) (tacaño) skinflint (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq)

III

adverbio

bailar agarrado — to dance closely

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= stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], tight-fisted, miser, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad, cheapskate.

Ex: All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.

Ex: The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.

Ex: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex: Most of these cheapskates will not come right out and tell you that they don't want to pay anything for your software.

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agarrado¹ -da

adjective

1 (fam); ‹persona› tight (colloq), tightfisted (colloq)

2

(CS fam) (enamorado): está muy agarrado de ella he's crazy about her (colloq)

agarrado² -da

masculine, feminine

(fam)

skinflint (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq), tight-ass (AmE colloq)

agarrado³

adverb

bailar agarrado to dance closely, dance cheek to cheek

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Del verbo agarrar: (conjugate agarrar)

agarrado es:

el participio

Multiple Entries:
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agarrar
agarrado 1

◊ -da adjetivo

a) [ser] (fam) (tacaño) tightfisted (colloq)

b) [estar] (CS fam) (enamorado) in love

■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (fam) (tacaño) skinflint (colloq), tightwad (AmE colloq)
agarrado 2 adverbio:

◊ bailar agarrado to dance closely

agarrar (conjugate agarrar) verbo transitivo
1 (sujetar) to grab, get hold of;

◊ me agarró del brazo (para apoyar) she took hold of my arm;

(con violencia, rapidez) she grabbed me by the arm
2 (esp AmL) ‹objeto› (tomar) to take;
(atajar) to catch;

◊ agarra un papel y toma nota get a piece of paper and take this down

3 (AmL) (pescar, atrapar) to catch;

◊ si lo agarro, lo mato if I get o lay my hands on him, I'll kill him

4 (esp AmL) (adquirir) ‹resfriado/pulmonía› to catch;
‹costumbre/vicio› to pick up;
‹ritmo› to get into;
‹velocidad› to gather, pick up;

◊ agarradole cariño a algn to grow fond of sb;

le agarró asco he got sick of it;
le he agarrado odio I've come to hate him
5 (AmL) (entender) ‹indirecta/chiste› to get
verbo intransitivo
1 (asir, sujetar):

◊ toma, agarra here, hold this;

agarra por ahí take hold of that part
2 [planta/injerto] to take;
[tornillo] to grip, catch;
[ruedas] to grip;
[tinte] to take
agarrarse verbo pronominal
1 (asirse) to hold on;
agárrate bien or fuerte hold on tight;
agarradose a or de algo to hold on to sth;

◊ iban agarrados del brazo they were walking along arm in arm

2 ‹dedo/manga› to catch;

◊ me agarré el dedo en el cajón I caught my finger in the drawer

3 (esp AmL) ‹resfriado/pulmonía› to catch;

◊ agarradose una borrachera to get drunk;

agarradose un disgusto/una rabieta to get upset/into a temper
4 (AmL fam) (pelearse) to get into a fight;

◊ se agarradoon a patadas they started kicking each other;

agarradose con algn to have a set-to with sb (colloq)
agarrado,-a adjetivo
1 familiar stingy, tight
2 (baile) cheek-to-cheek dancing
agarrar verbo transitivo
1 (sujetar con fuerza) to grasp, seize: lo tienes bien agarrado, you are holding it tightly
2 LAm (coger) to take
3 fam (pillar a alguien, un resfriado) to catch
agarrar(se) una borrachera, to get drunk o fam pissed
'agarrado' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
agarrar
- agarrada
- soltar
English:
meanie
- clutch
- grasp
- grip
- tight

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agarrado, -a

♦ adj

1. [asido]

me tenía agarrado de un brazo/del cuello he had me by the arm/the throat;

agarrados del brazo arm in arm;

agarrados de la mano hand in hand

2. Fam [tacaño] tight, stingy

3. Fam [baile] slow

♦ nm,f

Fam [tacaño]

ser un agarrado to be tight o stingy

♦ nm

Fam [baile] slow dance

♦ adv

Fam

bailar agarrado to dance cheek to cheek

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agarrado

adj

1 fam

mean, stingy fam

2

:

bailar agarrado dance close together

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agarrado, -da adj, fam : cheap, stingy