rightyn.adv.adj.

1906 J. K. Bangs Andiron Tales ii. 23 ‘With that,’ said the Righthandiron, ‘Skihigh clapped Ebenezer into his market basket and then turned on Lefty and me... He tried to bite my head off,’ said Righty, with a laugh.

1918 L. R. Livingston Mother Delcassee of Hoboes & Other Stories iv. 43 Righty, train rider who lost right arm and leg.

1927 Dial. Notes 5 461 Righty, a tramp who has lost either his right arm or leg.

1973 M. H. Mathers Riding Rails 16 Those hoboes with such names as Stumps, Righty and Fingers, actually lost those appendages when they tried to catch a moving train.

1938 Los Angeles Times 18 May ii. 12/5 Jack Russell replaced Logan to pitch to Berger and Terry sent Leslie, a left-hander, to hit against Russell, a righty.

1949 Sun (Baltimore) 3 June 18/7 Pie—a rightie..compiled an all-time average of 300-plus against all kinds of pitching.

1961 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 11 June 9 Most of us have a clear-cut ‘sideness’, controlled by the opposite side of the brain: the lefty can be just as skillful as the righty in the tasks of life.

1975 New Yorker 15 Sept. 27/3 The Sox put in..Cleveland, a righty who hadn't seen action in sixteen days.

1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct x. 306 Even righties with left-handed relatives..appear to parse sentences in subtly different ways than pure righties.

2006 N.Y. Times Sept. (Play Mag.) 53/2 If the ball is out and to the right (for a righty), it is likely to be a side-spin or ‘slice’ serve.

1961 Washington Post 25 Jan. 16 (headline) Waiting for righty?

1963 Great Bend (Kansas) Daily Tribune 26 Dec. 4/3 It did not seem reasonable to believe that the impassioned righties had been able to recruit an impassioned lefty to do a job of assassination for them.

1976 Sunday Tel. 29 Aug. 14/4 This ecclesiastical equivalent of Enoch Powell has done and said much more than demand the old Latin Mass, and this is where the majority of Catholics part company from the Rightie of Trent.

1984 K. Amis Let. 2 July (2000) 978 By God they were cross when I and 40 other specially-alerted righties turned up and voted them down.

2003 Guardian (Nexis) 25 July (Friday pages) 5 The recent conflict..showed us how much mileage the righties know they can get out of persecuting the lefties of the movie industry.

1941 Los Angeles Times 24 Feb. ii. 11/4 Hard-hitting Richie Lemos, Mexican ‘lefty’ who can also fight ‘righty’, headlines tonight's boxing card at Ocean Park Arena.

1963 B. Malamud Idiots First 19 I sat on the curb across the street, watching him shoot one marble lefty and the other one righty.

1989 M. T. Smith Port of Missing Men 25 Some days I pitched to him righty, and sometimes lefty.

1990 J. Leavy Squeeze Play iv. 192 Rump, who bats righty, took his time getting to the plate.

1946 Gastonia (N. Carolina) Daily Gaz. 16 Apr. 9/4 Right-handed hitters face far more ‘righty’ pitchers than portsiders face southpaws.

1957 Winnipeg Free Press 7 Oct. 15/3 When Whitey Ford starts the fifth game, he'll switch to his righty hitters.

1973 N.Y. Times 6 June 56 Lee carries a lefty glove and a righty glove, too.

1997 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 3 Nov. (Five Star Lift ed.) d4 Golf was more of the same. My father had an old set of righty clubs for me to practice on.

2007 P. Golenbock 7 226 Back then managers didn't overmanage the way they do now, bringing in a lefty pitcher to face a lefty hitter, or a righty pitcher to face a righty batter.

1970 Guardian 19 Nov. 9/4 This sounds a bit like his Righty chum, Bernard Levin, but not like any Lefty I know.

1994 Denver Post (Nexis) 9 Apr. (Denver & the West section) b1 Lefty enviros rankled the righty oil industry by calling for an end to the $ 2.50-per-acre giveaway of thousands of acres of federal oil shale lands.

2007 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 13 Oct. (Culture section) e1 The Invasion..is a fumbled allegory that jumbles half-baked lefty, righty and essentialist ideas.