English

Alternative forms

• tighty whities

Noun

tidy whities pl ‎(plural only)

1. (informal) Men's briefs; underwear.
   • 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, number 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 9780425194850, 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 9780595398164, 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.