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right-oh

right-oh is the alternative spelling of righto.

Meaning of righto

Interjection

  1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, colloquial, especially) Okay; all right.
    • "You can count me in." "It may be really rather formidable. We shall have possibly to tackle a prize-fighter." "Right-o!" said Malone, cheerfully.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

Origin of right-oh

From right + -oh.

Questions about right-oh

What is right-oh the alternative spelling of?
Right-oh is the alternative spelling of righto.

Words near right-oh in the dictionary

  1. right-o
  2. right-of-center
  3. right-of-centre
  4. right-of-way
  5. right-of-ways
  6. right-oh
  7. right-on
  8. right-onness
  9. right-shore
  10. right-shored
  11. right-shores

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Adapted from Wiktionary: right-oh (page history and authors); righto (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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