Definitions

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  • phrase colloquial Alternative spelling of nighty night.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Reduplication of night + -y.]

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Examples

  • I say, as soon as you hit sixty-two and get sick, you should just take the Paula Abdul morphine patch and say nighty-night.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • I say, as soon as you hit sixty-two and get sick, you should just take the Paula Abdul morphine patch and say nighty-night.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • I say, as soon as you hit sixty-two and get sick, you should just take the Paula Abdul morphine patch and say nighty-night.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • I say, as soon as you hit sixty-two and get sick, you should just take the Paula Abdul morphine patch and say nighty-night.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • When everyone went nighty-night, Rupert decided to start sawing wood, chopping wood, snapping wood, and basically doing anything he could think of to make noise with wood, waking up and annoying his sleeping tribemates whom he would soon be hoping wouldn't vote him out.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains: The Tin-Brained Woodman is Rusty. 2010

  • When everyone went nighty-night, Rupert decided to start sawing wood, chopping wood, snapping wood, and basically doing anything he could think of to make noise with wood, waking up and annoying his sleeping tribemates whom he would soon be hoping wouldn't vote him out.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains : The Tin-Brained Woodman is Rusty. 2010

  • * Make a nighty-night linen spray by mixing 2 oz distilled water with 20 drops of Calming or Sleepy Time Synergy Blends.

    Essential Oils Enhance Your Life Anne-Marie 2007

  • * Make a nighty-night linen spray by mixing 2 oz distilled water with 20 drops of Calming or Sleepy Time Synergy Blends.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Anne-Marie 2007

  • I love it when I catch B singing to herself after nighty-night.

    Jumperpie kittenpie 2007

  • A parking-lot brawl that erupted outside a Houston after-hours club early today left five-time All-Pro tackle Kent Kubble unscathed as he lay sleeping in his hotel room twenty miles away, having turned in at 10: 00 P.M. the previous night after watching Everybody Loves Raymond and phoning his kids back home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to say nighty-night.

    Sports Names in the News 2005

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