Between the ages of about 8 and 13 I had a friend who moved away after that. He had a habit of jokingly calling people ‘Mr Tighten’ or ‘Mr. Button’, as in, ‘What do you think you’re doing, Mr. Button?’ Actually at the time I thought it was ‘Mr Titan’ and ‘Mr. Butt’n’, but now it sounds more like something you say to a baby when you’re dressing him. I wonder if it could have been something his mother had said to him when he was a baby.
Has anyone ever heard these expressions? My friend’s family came from Minnesota, if that helps.