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hunky-dory definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all- right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine" [syn: all right, fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: obsolete English dialect hunk home base + -dory (of unknown origin) Date: 1866 quite satisfactory ; fine

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. esp. US colloq. excellent. Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn.