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righty-o

righty-o is the alternative form 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 righty-o

From righty + -o.

Questions about righty-o

What is righty-o the alternative form of?
Righty-o is the alternative form of righto.

Words near righty-o in the dictionary

  1. rightwisely
  2. rightwiseness
  3. righty
  4. righty tighty, lefty loosey
  5. righty-ho
  6. righty-o
  7. rigid
  8. rigid bodies
  9. rigid body
  10. rigid body dynamics
  11. rigid-leaf poison

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Adapted from Wiktionary: righty-o (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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