highty-tighty

Hertfordshire, and the highty-tighty man at Port Hill in the damnest

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

It's just as Gerald Doak says to me in Chicago -- oh, yes, Jerry's an old friend of mine -- the wife and I are thinking of running over to England to stay with Jerry in his castle, next year -- and he said to me, ` Georgie, old bean, I like Lucile first-rate, but you and me, George, we got to make her get over this highty-tighty hooptediddle way she's got. ''

Babbitt 1922

It’s just as Gerald Doak says to me in Chicago—oh, yes, Jerry’s an old friend of mine—the wife and I are thinking of running over to England to stay with Jerry in his castle, next year—and he said to me, ‘Georgie, old bean, I like Lucile first-rate, but you and me, George, we got to make her get over this highty-tighty hooptediddle way she’s got.

Chapter 19 1922

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.

Nonsenseorship G. G. [Editor] Putnam 1915

She was highty-tighty, as you might say, and I'll admit it hurt.

Apron-Strings Eleanor Gates 1913

Bela was good for a bit of fun, too; nothing highty-tighty about her.

The Huntress Hulbert Footner 1911

Meynell, Panton, and James are in Hertfordshire, and the highty-tighty man at Port Hill in the damnest

George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

"Gals!" said the old man's voice, -- "one on 'em highty-tighty, fly-away-lookin ',' n 'the other kind o' 'pindlin'; drivin 'your hoss, they was."

Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

But I guess ther won't be no dancin 'nor highty-tighty dewin's.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887

"Well, you needn't be so highty-tighty about it," said Percy, taking

Bessie Bradford's Prize 1875