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tighty-whitey

tighty-whitey is the attributive form of tighty whities.

Meaning of tighty whities

Noun

tighty whities pl (plural only, attributive tighty-whitey)

  1. (colloquial, derogatory, often, plural, plural-only) Men's or boys' traditionally white briefs.
    • Forbes, in his tighty whities and black socks, seems an incongruous apparition against the sense of home the kitchen implies.1999, Noah Hawley, A Conspiracy of Tall Men, page 345

Forms of tighty-whitey

pluraltighty-whiteys

Questions about tighty-whitey

What is tighty-whitey the attributive form of?
Tighty-whitey is the attributive form of tighty whities.

Words near tighty-whitey in the dictionary

  1. tightwads
  2. tightwire
  3. tightwires
  4. tighty whiteys
  5. tighty whities
  6. tighty-whitey
  7. tighty-whiteys
  8. tighty-whities
  9. Tigkan
  10. tiglaldehyde
  11. Tigley

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tighty-whitey (page history and authors); tighty whities (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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