tidy whities
English
Alternative forms
- tighty whities
Etymology
An eggcorn of tighty whities.
Noun
tidy whities pl (plural only)
- (informal, nonstandard, proscribed) Men's briefs; underwear.
- 1994 March 19, Thunder Dan, “Re: Help Me Kill My Roomates”, in soc.college, Usenet:
- 9. I like walking down the hall in my tidy whities, or less, and it is a coed dorm
- 1999, Glamour, volume 97, number 1-4, Condé Nast Publications, page 186:
- To toughen yourself up for a face-off with a stuffed shirt, make like Marcia Brady: Picture him in his tidy whities
- 2004, MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unwed, Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 67:
- She tried her mother again when her father started coming into her room dressed only in his tidy whities. She got slapped for telling lies.
- 2006, Brandelyn Castine, “Call Me Crazy: A thought”, in Spoken Silence: Life in 4 Parts, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 47:
- For instance, I like to wear men's underwear. Yes the tidy whities with the little pocket thing in front. I throw on some of those and wife beater and lounge in my house watching TV.
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