GICCHI-RI ぎっちり
Meanings
A gapless, jammed to the limit, with no room to spare.
Examples
・The books are so tightly packed that I can’t fit another one in.
本がぎっちり入っていて、もう一冊も入らない。
・The lunch box is packed too tightly with ingredients and the lid won’t close.
弁当箱に具材をぎっちり詰めすぎて、蓋が閉まらない。
Dogmatic Opinion
It is almost synonymous with “Gisshiri,” but compared to “Gisshiri,”
there is more stuff packed in, and the container/space is bursting at the seams.
You can feel the pressure from the inside to the outside, like the wood of a bookcase creaking.
If the bookshelf is designed to hold 100 books,
Gishikri has 100 books stored.
Gicchiri has 105 books stored. (About 105 books are forcibly stored, and you can almost hear the screams from the books and bookshelves).
Proximate Expression
crammed
