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OK; okay
adjective- comfortable, at ease US
Especially common as “OK about” or “OK with”. - To be successful in it as a career ... a girl is going to have to know values as well as skills–how to feel OK about herself and what she’s doing. — Washington Post, p. C3, 2 April 1978
- Felt OK about it, actually, strangely enough. I don’t recall too much guilty. — The Oprah Winfrey Show, 27 October 2004
- safe, unhurt US, 1839
- Not a sound came over the intercom until a few long seconds later, and then the skipper asked if we were all OK. — Ron Smith, Rear Gunner Pathfinders, p. 23, 1987
- Are you okay? You don’t look good. — Aaron McGruder, Fresh for ‘01, p. 96, 2001
- Are you okay Sir? How’s the bird Sir? Where’d you get the feckin’ bullet holes Sir? — Samuel Brantley, Zero Dark Thirty, p. 69, 2002
- decent, mediocre, satisfactory US, 1839
In 1963, the late Allen Walker Read published his extensive and definitive research on the term, tracing its coinage to 1839 as an abbreviation of “oil korrect”, itself a then-popular slang term. - MOM: How are you? ANDY: Okay. MOM: Just okay? You sound a little down. — Helen E. Johnson, Don’t Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money, p. 61, 2000
- The print looked okay, but just okay. — Bruce Campbell, If Chins Could Kill, p. 74, 2002
- “That’s okay,” I told her. “I’ll be fine.” — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, p. 28, 2002
- The upshot: he hopped on the next plane to L.A. to see me and make sure everything was okay. — Janice Dickson, Everything About Me is Fake, p. 128, 2004
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