nighty
Americannoun
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He kicked with demonic glee under my hideously ruffled maternity nighty as I masqueraded in the synthetic approximation of Mia Farrow’s pixie cut.
From Slate • Oct. 26, 2015
First concrete objective is some new standard of international exchange to stabilize nighty currencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
But last May, when the House of Commons preferred the nighty brilliance of Mr. Churchill to the dignified ineffectuality of Neville Chamberlain, it acquiesced in a revolution in British politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
It gathers up all that is weak, all that is nighty, all that is cruel, even all that is cowardly, and hurls the whole, imbued with its own qualities, against whatever excites its rage.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.
So he sailed out to the wild West, where he was about as useful as a trimmed nighty.
From Mr. Scraggs by Phillips, Henry Wallace
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