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Definition: Hunky-dory |
Hunky-doryAdjective1. (informal) 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hunky-dory" was first used: 1866. (references) |
Synonyms: Hunky-dorySynonyms: all right(p) (adj), all-right(a) (adj), fine (adj), o.k. (adj), ok (adj), okay (adj). (additional references) |
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| "Hunky-dory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Hunky-dory" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "hunky-dory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | beau. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rendben levő (jake, ship-shape, straight), oltári (mind-blowing), nagyszerű (ace, admirable, bitching, bodacious, grandiose, magnificent, phenomenal, pompous, splendid, sublime, superb, tiptop), jó (aces, as good as gold, bitching, conceit, fair, fair enough, fine, good, gorge, guileless, have a good grounding in sg, have a good pair of legs, have a long wind, have good legs, have good walking legs, it's good to be alive, jake, mind-blowing, nice, okay, physiognomist, plump, sniffy, that's not good enough, to be all aces, to be well connected), igényeknek megfelelő, frankó (boss, slick, spiffy, up front). (various references) | |
Italian | eccellente (bang up, capital, champion, choice, crack, excellent, fine, first rate, gradely, royal, slap up, super, superb, top notch). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unky-doryhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | timo. (various references) | |
Russian | превосходный (admirable, bang-up, beautiful, capital, clinking, divine, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, jim-dandy, nailing, once-stellar, palmary, posh, prime, smashing, spanking, superb, superlative, surpassing, tiptop, top-hole, topnotch, top-notch, transcendent, unexceptionable, unexceptional), по маслу, первоклассный (bang-up, capital, champion, classy, first class, first rate, first-rate, gilt-edged, lummy, pucka, pukka, splendid, sterling, super, tiptop, top flight, topflight, top-flight, top-hole, top-line, topnotch, top-notch, top-quality). (various references) | |
Spanish | guay (radical, super). (various references) | |
Thai | "ี (fine, good, kushty, nice, tickety-boo). (various references) | |
Turkish | kıyak, birinci sınıf (banner class, best, classic, commanding, first chop, first class, first rate, in style, jammy, of the first water, pucka, pukka, slap up, super, tiptop, top drawer, topflight, topping, tops, wire-wove), üstün kâliteli (choice quality, first rate, high grade). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | славний (decent, glorious, nice, noble, pleasant), першокласний (a, bang up, bully, classy, clinking, crackajack, crackerjack, exclusive, first class, prime, pukka, superfine, tiptop, top flight). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chiến (bang-up, bonzer, elegant, famous, famously, magnificent, slap-up, smashing, solid, spanking, super). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | honk. (various references) |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | honc. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Hunky-dory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hunkydory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-k-n-o-r-u-y-y" | |
-3 letters: koruny. | |
-4 letters: dorky, drouk, drunk, honky, horny, hound, hunky, hydro, korun, round, yourn. | |
-5 letters: dork, dory, dour, dunk, durn, duro, honk, horn, hour, hunk, knur, kudo, nurd, rynd, undo, undy, yodh, yond, your. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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