highty-tighty
Americanadjective
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While the plump palms of Los Angeles' highty-tighty delighted to honor the Los Angeles Orchestra, neighbors from Hollywood's film colony stayed away in droves, and nobody was sorry.
From Time Magazine Archive
La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with US.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Don't try to turn me off in that highty-tighty way.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
With the thought of the masses becoming more and more neutral in the highty-tighty war between Good and Evil, the laws created by these same masses grow more and more rabid.
From Nonsenseorship by G. G. Putnam
And she's helpful about the house for such a young cretur, and she's not a bit forth-putting or highty-tighty.
From A Little Country Girl by Susan Coolidge
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