Hunkee Doree (1865) & Maison Doree?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
Bapopik at AOL.COM
Tue Dec 27 16:31:34 UTC 2005
FYI, from OED. Note the "doree" spelling of the first citation, from October
1866.
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So hunky-dory, dorey [second element of unknown origin] a., satisfactory,
fine.
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1866 Galaxy 1 Oct. 275, I cannot conceive on any theory of etymology..why
anything that is ‘hunkee doree’..should be so admirable. 1868 in G. C. D.
Odell Ann. N.Y. Stage (1936) VIII. 390 [Even Samuel Slater admitted that
Tostee, when and if she sang, was] hunky~dory. 1907 _N. MUNRO_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-m4.html#n-munro) Daft Days xxi, Before one marries
it's Before oneit's fairy all the time. 1907 _M. C. HARRIS_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-h.html#m-c-harris) Tents of Wickedness iv. ii. 341
I've had my luncheon, and I feel better already. Oh, it's all hunky-dory. 1943
N. BALCHIN Small Back Room 172 Well, unless the electricity they taught me
is all wrong, that ought to be hunky-dory. 1956 _D. M. DAVIN_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-d.html#d-m-davin) Sullen Bell III. iv. 233, I
thought everything was hunkydory and you were well on the way to being a big
executive. 1969 _J. GARDNER_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-g.html#j-gardner) Founder Member ii. 17 Everythink's 'unkey dorey 'ere. No problem.
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