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tightner

tightner noun: a meal, particularly a large one.

Noun

tightner (plural tightners)

  1. (slang) A meal, particularly a large one.
    • Master Whelkey will answer perhaps, "But kool the esilop (look at the police), kool him (look at him). Curly: Nommus (be off), I am going to do the tightner" (have my dinner).1857, James Ewing Ritchie, “The Costermongers' Free-And-Easy”, in The Night Side of London, page 193

Forms of tightner

pluraltightners

Origin of tightner

Alternative spelling of tightener.

Words formed from tightner

  • Scots tuppeny tightner

Questions about tightner

What does tightner mean?
Tightner means a meal, particularly a large one.
What part of speech is tightner?
Tightner is a noun.
What is the plural of tightner?
The plural of tightner is tightners.

Words near tightner in the dictionary

  1. tightlipped
  2. tightlippedness
  3. tightlock
  4. tightlocks
  5. tightly
  6. tightner
  7. tightness
  8. tightnesses
  9. tightrope
  10. tightrope artist
  11. tightrope artists

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