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Hunky-dory   /hˈəŋki-dˈɔri/   Listen
Hunky-dory

adjective
1.
Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.  Synonyms: all right, fine, o.k., ok, okay.  "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"






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"Hunky-dory" Quotes from Famous Books



... bear to tolerate me speaking Spanish," he apologized. "It gets so on her nerves that I promised not to. Well, as I was saying, the goose hung high and everything was going hunky-dory, and I was piling up my wages to come north to Nebraska and marry Sarah, when I ...
— The Red One • Jack London

... "Oh! he's all hunky-dory, suh, 'deed an' he is," she replied with a smile. "I done jest gib him his supper, and chucked de chile in his bed. An' I ain't put a hand on him neither. Jes' as yuh sez he done hab a lesson; but I tells him if he ebber goes to dat ...
— The Chums of Scranton High - Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight • Donald Ferguson



Words linked to "Hunky-dory" :   fine, satisfactory, colloquialism



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