tighty whities

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Etymology

From tight +‎ -y and white +‎ -y.

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Noun

tighty whities pl (plural only)

  1. (originally US, colloquial, often derogatory) Men's or boys' traditionally white briefs.
    • 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.
    • 2012, Alice Randall, Ada’s Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel, page 97:
      Temple was laid out with a cold. Ada hoped she hadn't brought baby Jarius's bug out to him. As soon a Ada had gotten the toilets cleaned and the soup on the stove she rubbed her daddy down with a lemon cut in half, then lowered him (wearing purple tighty whities) into a hot bath she had spiked with red pepper flakes and Tabasco. When Temple was up to his shoulders in the water, Ada gave him a shot of whisky.

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