m'kay

Interjection

1. (informal) spelling mkay
   • In these tutoring sessions we have found that, when the tutor agrees with the student’s displayed understanding, her signal of confirmation comes quickly after the student’s turn, as in:
     S. Mkay.
     hh. And I know it’s negative, just to follow your thought process, because I know that the sine is...1991, Barbara A. Fox, “Cognitive and Interactional Aspects of Correction in Tutoring,” in Teaching Knowledge and Intelligent Tutoring, Peter Goodyear ed....
   • … the director would go on only when both were satisfied the matcher had understood, as here:
     D. The long view of the quad uh walkway
     M. those
     M. ┌ numbers right?
     D. └ is number 5
     M. Mkay
     D. Yeah with the numbers on the bottom.1993, Herbert H Clark, Arenas of Language Use http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=iRlL1nmsB-4C&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&sig=MzayaXWqjqReOg6XyNY2ES7Ycn4
2. (informal) spelling mmkay
   • C: I want you to re:st (.) re:st (.) as much as you can do (.) is just re:st (.) hhh when >you go< home (.) >you tell< your husband you make dinner honey (.) hhh you take care of me (.) . . . I need >to set< down (.) I need >to rest< (.)
     P: mmkay (.)
     C: and >get down< (.) watch your sodium (.) the...1997: Christina S. Beck, Partnership for Health (dead link)
   • well i used to have some skilled sticky fingers of my own back in the day so i know a shoplifted dress when i see one mmkay.2004, Abbe Diaz, PX This (dead link)
3. (informal) spelling mmmkay
   • 1999, “It's Easy, MMMKay.” [title, in soundtrack] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
   • Let’s get all this straight. He took me to a place he hates to see if I like it. Mmmkay.2004, Victoria Schmitz, If It’s Not One Thing It’s the Other http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=lFcLqmFytiMC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&sig=H_Qm7nTzqEzS470vfocV9c74reI
4. (informal) spelling m’kay
   • I’ll tell you a secret if you promise not to tell anybody, not even the missus, m’kay?1999, Tom Bradley, Black Class Cur http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Fdo3ky2yq-sC&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&sig=PGLARdInWR86z9kI3MQaQKe5G9s
   • But do keep in mind that this film [viz. South Park] is not for the faint of heart, and it ain’t for kids, m’kay?2003, Bill Hunt and Todd Doogan, The Digital Bits: Insider’s Guide to DVD http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=ZPvgA1QU1BMC&pg=PA294&lpg=PA294&sig=hJv3zSuA9sriREBxGXxi7ZevcuQ
5. (informal) spelling mm-kay
   • She didn’t ask what that was supposed to mean, but tallied a while on her fingertips and obliged him.
     “Mm-kay, bye.”2000, Tom Bradley, Hustling the East http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=GYnGE49yhPsC&pg=PA236&lpg=PA236&sig=JIS7zjR3YOAzjIW-jrKuyOrxpQM
   • “All I’m saying,” the Asian man said, “is it’s about time she got a whiff of her own breath. Mm-kay?”2005, Bill Eisele, Scrub Match http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=7M31jHxhJawC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&sig=no7YkuHLZazkBAuC0ztcd6i9AJI
6. (informal) spelling mmm-kay
   • “Well, I’m going to take a picture of your arm and then this nice doctor is going to fix it for you, okay?”
     “Mmm-kay.”2005, Michael Collins, Hot Lights, Cold Steel