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English
Noun
tidy whities pl (plural only)
- (informal, nonstandard, proscribed) Eggcorn of tighty whities.
1994 March 19, Thunder Dan, “Re: Help Me Kill My Roomates”, in soc.college (Usenet):9. I like walking down the hall in my tidy whities, or less, and it is a coed dorm
1999, Glamour, volume 97, numbers 1-4, Condé Nast Publications, page 186:To toughen yourself up for a face-off with a stuffed shirt, make like Marcia Brady: Picture him in his tidy whities
2004, MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unwed, Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 67: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.
2006, Brandelyn Castine, “Call Me Crazy: A thought”, in Spoken Silence: Life in 4 Parts, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 47: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.
2020, Lil Pop, Hampton 3: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.