tighty whities
See also: tighty-whities
English
Alternative forms
- tighty-whities
Etymology
From tight + -y and white + -y.
Noun
tighty whities pl (plural only)
- (derogatory) Men's or boys' white briefs.
- 1990 March 11, Chris Cleeland, “Large breasts”, in alt.sex, Usenet:
- [W]hat do you females (lurkers included :-) think of boxers as opposed to the traditional Fruit-O-The-Loom/Hanes "tighty-whities"?
- 1995, National Speleological Society, Nittany Grotto News
- I had the pleasure of seeing the boys and their tighty whities as they changed to clean clothes. Nikki and I didn't have clean clothes […]
- 1999, Noah Hawley, A Conspiracy of Tall Men, page 345:
- Forbes, in his tighty whities and black socks, seems an incongruous apparition against the sense of home the kitchen implies.
- 2000, Edward Lerner, Creative Destruction, page 29:
- It would indeed be great if my red socks and my tighty whities declared themselves to my washer.
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Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:underwear
Derived terms
- tighties