okey-doke, a. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
(ˌəʊkɪˈdəʊk)
Also oakie-doke, okay-doke, okee-doke, okey-dokey, okie-dokie, okle-dokle.
[Redupl. O.K. adj.]
= O.K. adj. a.
| 1932 Amer. Speech VII. 334 Okey-dokey, O.K. 1934 M. H. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang xiii. 190 Okey dokey, O.K. Ibid. xxi. 373 Okay doke, satisfactory; agreeable; all right. 1935 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 7 Feb. 7/1 An attorney asked Carl Bush, witness, to answer a ‘yes or no’ question. ‘Oakie-Doke,’ replied Bush. 1936 M. Harrison All Trees were Green 305 Captain Sarsfield said: ‘Everything okey-doke up at the mansion?’ 1936 D. Powell Turn, Magic Wheel i. 36 He saw that tiresome red-faced fellow.., the man who knew everybody and said ‘okie-dokie’ to everything. 1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax iv. 53 Things are okey-doke for a lot of people now. 1947 B. Schulberg Harder they Fall vii. 121 ‘Hey, Killer, tell Jack to pick me up in front of the door right away.’ ‘Okle-dokle,’ the Killer said. ‘Where we goin'?’ 1957 C. MacInnes City of Spades ii. iii. 95 One Guinness stout, right, I thank you, okey-doke, here it is. 1968 C. Brown in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 236/1 There are certain classic soul terms... Among the classical expressions are: ‘solid’, ‘cool’,..‘okee doke’, [etc.]. 1977 J. Fleming Every Inch a Lady i. i. 7 Light out, silence, everything okey dokey, she goes off to bed. 1977 New Yorker 16 May 33/1 Now, if for any reason you lose your paper clips, you're in big trouble. Okeydoke. |