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tiggity-boo

tiggity-boo is the alternative spelling of tickety-boo.

Meaning of tickety-boo

Adjective

tickety-boo (not comparable)

  1. (UK, informal) Correct, satisfactory.
    • I want everything to be all tickety-boo. I want to marry you properly according to the English law so that your people will know that I'm playing straight with you.1947, Nevil Shute [pseudonym; Nevil Shute Norway], chapter 6, in The Chequer Board, [London]: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, 1947, →OCLC, page 220

Questions about tiggity-boo

What is tiggity-boo the alternative spelling of?
Tiggity-boo is the alternative spelling of tickety-boo.

Words near tiggity-boo in the dictionary

  1. tigged
  2. Tigger
  3. Tiggerish
  4. Tiggers
  5. tigging
  6. tiggity-boo
  7. tiggy
  8. TIGHAR
  9. Tighe
  10. Tighes
  11. Tighes Hill

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