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oll korrect

oll korrect interjection: all right; okay.

Interjection (1)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) All right; okay.
    • It is a curious fact that the telegraph clerks in England and America employ the letters ‘O. K.,’ when they send a telegram that a message has been received Oll Korrect.1869, Charles Godfrey Leland, Hans Breitmann's Barty and other Ballads, John Camden Hotten, p. 43 (Google preview)
    • "My Lord!" exclaimed Levin; "that's twenty-five dollars, ain't it, sir?"1884, George Alfred Townsend, The Entailed Hat, or Patty Cannon's Times, Harper & Brothers, p. 182 (Google preview)

Interjection (2) capitalized: Oll Korrect

Oll Korrect

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of oll korrect.

Examples of oll korrect in a sentence

  • Allen Walker Read, the etymologist who tracked down the source of O.K. (Oll korrect, not Old Kinderhook - stop writing me about this.1982 June 6, William Safire, “On Language”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Jan 2014:
  • Even fairly prosaic things—the way his lips puckered into a pout when he bit into his sandwich, the way he said certain words—minor words, like the abbreviated oll korrect, also known as okay.2002, Tiffanie DeBartolo, God Shaped Hole: A Novel, →ISBN, page 54:

Forms of oll korrect

alternative formOll Korrect

Origin of oll korrect

A deliberate, humorous corruption of all correct, dating from the 1830s, recognized as one of several possible origins for the term OK.

Questions about oll korrect

What does oll korrect mean?
Oll korrect means all right; okay.
How do you use oll korrect in a sentence?
Allen Walker Read, the etymologist who tracked down the source of O.K. (Oll korrect, not Old Kinderhook - stop writing me about this.
What part of speech is oll korrect?
Oll korrect is an interjection.

Words near oll korrect in the dictionary

  1. olkhonskite
  2. Olkowski
  3. Olkowskis
  4. Olks
  5. OLL
  6. oll korrect
  7. olla
  8. olla podrida
  9. olla podridas
  10. Ollague
  11. Ollagüe

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