tieso
Meanings
Adjective
1. stiff, rigid
2. starched, very formal
3. strong-willed, stubborn
4. frozen solid, rigid due to cold (colloquial)
5. erect, hard, stiff (having an erect penis; translates in some contexts to erection, boner, stiffy) (slang)
6. dead (colloquial)
7. in shock, astonished (colloquial)
8. broke, skint (without money) (colloquial)
Examples9
Mira si está tieso.
Check if he's dead.
Lo tengo tieso.
I've got a boner.
Escribe con excelentes detalles, pero con un estilo tieso.
He writes with excellent detail, but his style is very formal.
Me preocupa que sus codos estén tan tiesos, doctor.
Doctor, I'm worried her elbows are so stiff.
El material es demasiado tieso; necesitamos otro.
The material is too stiff; we need another one.
Dejaste tan atrás la leche en el estante del refrigerador que ahora está tiesa.
You left the milk so far back in the fridge shelf that it's now frozen solid.