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  • Okey-dokey,” she says, watering the tropical plants situated around the shop.

    Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

  • Okey-dokey,” she says, watering the tropical plants situated around the shop.

    Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

  • An energy whooshes by me, the hair on my arms and neck stand up, and I hear his ghostly voice whisper, “Okey-dokey.”

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • An energy whooshes by me, the hair on my arms and neck stand up, and I hear his ghostly voice whisper, “Okey-dokey.”

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • It long ago lost any resemblance to a joke, so when we want to give it a humorous twist we're likely to say "Okey-dokey," which has various connotations, among them "lack of education, or, more positively, simplicity of character" and "playfulness."

    Linguistically, America is A-OK Jonathan Yardley 2010

  • Okey-dokey,” she says, watering the tropical plants situated around the shop.

    Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

  • It long ago lost any resemblance to a joke, so when we want to give it a humorous twist we're likely to say "Okey-dokey," which has various connotations, among them "lack of education, or, more positively, simplicity of character" and "playfulness."

    Linguistically, America is A-OK Jonathan Yardley 2010

  • Dressed in blue jeans and a ponytail after-hours at the White House, wearing her thick Coke-bottle glasses, she will use expressions like "Okey-dokey, artichokey," and ask, "What's up, buttercup?"

    First Fighter 2008

  • Dressed in blue jeans and a ponytail after-hours at the White House, wearing her thick Coke-bottle glasses, she will use expressions like "Okey-dokey, artichokey," and ask, "What's up, buttercup?"

    First Fighter 2007

  • When a car finally pulls up outside to take him to his first radio interview, Moby slings the bag earnestly over one shoulder, adjusts his thick-rimmed glasses and tromps out the door with trash bag in hand: "Okey-dokey, let's go."

    Great White Male 2007

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