Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slang Perfectly satisfactory; fine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as hunky, hunk, 2.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
Etymologies
- Probably alteration of hunky, safe, all right, from obsolete hunk, goal, home in a game, from Dutch honk, from Frisian hunk. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
““So everything was hunky-dory between you and Victor the last time you saw him?””
“Tim McGraw brought his Emotional Traffic Tour to suburban Denver, Colorado on August 5, and everything was hunky-dory.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Bialas: Concert Review: Tim McGraw, Luke Bryan Manhandle Denver
“You mean you can't just print up trillions in Monopoly Money and everything will turn out just hunky-dory?”
“T_T Things are moving along quickly but very hunky-dory.”
“Without leaving the boat, fishing arm-deep into the brush, he announced, "All hunky-dory.”
“So tunneling under a high school with thousands of living children is hunky-dory, while tunneling under a cemetery with thousands of dead people is verboten.”
“The weekend before Eric was injured, Beth and I were living in our own home, involved in sea turtle rescues, walking on the beach, and everything's hunky-dory.”
Caregiving strains families of veterans with severe injuries
“These jerkwads think everything is hunky-dory with “health care” because they have access to it.”
Think Progress » GOP congressman praises government health care system that paid for his treatement.
“Besides which, the idea that all was hunky-dory until direct election of senators ruined everything in 1913 is pretty nutty.”
“McCain is a fool if he thinks that after 5 months into a probably too small stimulus plan that everything should be hunky-dory again after 28 years of conservative, McCain supported bad ideas like deregulation, sub prime, leveraging to the hilt, etc, etc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hunky-dory’.
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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Hyphen-hyphen
A list of interesting words incorporating a hyphen
cat's-paw, sea-mew, kiss-me-quick, kiss-ass, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, hush-hush, hugger-mugger, fox-trot, super-duper, fuddy-duddy, boogie-woogie and 33 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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Double Trouble
Reduplicatives and more.
splish-splash, hip-hop, kit-kat, dingaling, hugger-mugger, even-steven, tit for tat, higgledy-piggledy, dilly-dally, boogie-woogie, knick-knack, mai tai and 131 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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samoritan's Words
moxie, zarf, crepuscular, serenity, halcyon, powerfuller, instant classic, abecedary, trilobite, doomsters, 'da bome, evanescence and 149 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 439 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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they trip off the tongue
interesting compounds
flummadiddle, flapdoodle, lickety-split, jiggery-pokery, whangdoodle, whippersnapper, mumbo jumbo, shilly-shally, fiddle-faddle, topsy-turvy, fuddy-duddy, hugger-mugger and 38 more...
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Endearing bits of speech
Words to care for and to keep, mostly ones I've garnered from literature.
nonpareil, triptych, synaesthesia, errata, dissonance, phoneme, hinterland, concordance, ersatz, sinuous, genre, wanderlust and 18 more...
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I like it. I like it a lot.
a list of words that I know already, but have a strange attraction to.
roly-poly, womanly, humdrum, hunky-dory, chubby, cookie, chocolate, cake, fiddlesticks, butyraceous, defiant, infertility and 3 more...
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H
hazy, hollow, hazel, huggles, hullabaloo, honeysuckle, hush, husk, humble, hymn, halo, honey and 11 more...
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neat!
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neat, nifty, keen, swell, far out, groovy, wicked, peachy, awesome, rad, boss, cool and 50 more...
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HU101
Words for vocabulary test in Communication Skills course, HU101.
bequeath, lingering, prejudice, oxymoron, rigmarole, zealot, customary, dreary, etiquette, fragile, grandiose, hunky-dory and 48 more...
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Funny Words
Funny sounding words
befuddled, gizmo, teeter-totter, lollygag, cahoots, whippersnapper, kitty-corner, shenanigan, skedaddle, tomfoolery, hornswoggle, humdinger and 38 more...
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