finickity vs tight-assed

finickity

adj
  • Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular. 

tight-assed

adj
  • Excessively concerned with unimportant details; obsessively precise. 

  • Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours. 

  • Having firm or clenched buttocks. 

  • Fitting tightly in the area covering the buttocks. 

  • Reluctant to spend money. 

adv
  • In an uptight or fastidious way. 

How often have the words finickity and tight-assed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )