Eggcorn: "tighty-up" (v.)

[John McChesney-Young]

 From an e-mail I was cced today:

... during that time i also like to set up the candle stand and tighty-up
some loose things at the entrance with you.

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What better way to deal with loose things than to tighty them up?

Arnold entered an example illustrating the opposite direction to the
eggcorn database a few years ago:

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/240/tidy-whitey/ [< tighty-whitey]

John
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John McChesney-Young  **  Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
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