tidy whities

noun

Eggcorn of tighty whities.

Meanings

nountidy whities pl (plural only)
  1. informalnonstandardpluralplural onlyproscribedEggcorn of tighty whities.

    9. I like walking down the hall in my tidy whities, or less, and it is a coed dorm

    1994 March 19, Thunder Dan, “Re: Help Me Kill My Roomates^([sic])”, in soc.college (Usenet)
    4 more examples

    To toughen yourself up for a face-off with a stuffed shirt, make like Marcia Brady: Picture him in his tidy whities

    1999, Glamour, volume 97, numbers 1-4, Condé Nast Publications, page 186

    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.

    2004, MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unwed, Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 67

    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.

    2006, Brandelyn Castine, “Call Me Crazy: A thought”, in Spoken Silence: Life in 4 Parts, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 47

    Eighteen-year-old guys, doing their laundry for the first time had no idea about sorting colors before putting clothes in the washing machine. You just crammed everything you could in the washer, put in some soap and turned it on. Unfortunately, most of us bought new college sweatshirts to wear and when they were put in the wash with the tidy whiteys, the tidy whiteys were no longer white. Instead, they were a faded color of the new sweatshirt that you also washed.

    2020, Lil Pop, Hampton 3
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