Comment on Top 10 Things You Hate a Guy Doing on a Date by VVayfarer:

You’ve got a point.

きざ 《気障》 (adj-na,n) (uk) (abbr) (See 気障り) affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious

Unless I’m missing some definition of “tight” it doesn’t have anything to do with the word “kiza”.


VVayfarer made other comments on this post:

  • Top 10 Things You Hate a Guy Doing on a Date:
    12:16 Dude, it’s a date – obviously they’ll say hello when they meet…

  • Top 10 Things You Hate a Guy Doing on a Date:
    WWWJDIC is right – ‘snobby’ is the closest definition of kiza. Look at the definition in Japanese again. 気取る means ‘taking on airs’, as in being snobby – NOT being shy. That one I made sure to confirm on a Japanese dictionary. But let’s say your translation is correct – how is that being ‘tight’? Am I really missing some obscure slang definition here? The Free Dictionary, yourdictionary and even urban dictionary say nothing of such. Your sudden matter-of-fact approval of this usage made me lol, …

  • Top 10 Things You Hate a Guy Doing on a Date:
    Almost. “Not paying” is about 4.5 times worse according to women, and men being “tight” (?) is around 11-fold as bad as women acting the same.

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