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1. wordhistories.net · 2020/11/03 · tickety-boo‘tickety-boo’: meaning, early occurrences and origin

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   Nov 3, 2020 · MEANING OF TICKETY-BOO. Used predicatively, the old-fashioned informal British-English adjective tickety-boo means as it should be, correct, satisfactory. The adjective in use—from Subdued Johnson just a piece of flotsam being buffeted around, by the parliamentary sketch writer John Crace, published in The Guardian (London and Manchester ...

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   The meaning of TICKETY-BOO is fine, okay. How to use tickety-boo in a sentence.

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   Jun 18, 2021 · Tickety-boo, an informal adjective meaning “fine, OK,” is a British colloquialism of uncertain etymology. It may be an expressive alteration of “that’s the ticket,” ticket here having its informal sense “the proper thing, advisable thing.”

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   What's the origin of the phrase 'Tickety-boo'? The tickling here isn’t the light stroking of the skin – it’s the figurative sense of the word that means ‘to give pleasure or gratify’. The tickling pink concept is of enjoyment great enough to make the recipient glow with pleasure – (see also in the pink). That meaning of tickling has ...

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   Revision notes on 1.1.10 Biochemical Tests: Sugars & Starch for the AQA A Level Biology syllabus, written by the Biology experts at Save My Exams.

7. english.stackexchange.com · questions · 10526Why "tickety-boo"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

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   Jan 29, 2011 · tickety-boo adjective fine, correct, in order, satisfactory. Originally military; a variation of 'ticket', as in just the ticket (correct), with Hindu [Hindi, —ed.] tikai babu (it's all right, sir) UK 1939.

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   What does Tickety Boo mean?

   • MEANING OF TICKETY-BOO Used predicatively, the old-fashioned informal British-English adjective tickety-boo means as it should be, correct, satisfactory.

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   What does Tickety booadjective mean?

   • tickety-booadjective fine, correct, in order, satisfactory. Originally military; a variation of 'ticket', as in just the ticket (correct), with Hindu [Hindi, —ed.] tikai babu (it's all right, sir) UK 1939. The proper Hindi phrase is ठीक हैं बाबू / theak hai, babu / (Okay, Sir) —ed.

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   What is the etymology of Tickety-Boo?

   • Jonathon Green, The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (1984) seems far less sure about the etymology of tickety-boo than the authors of The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang seem to be. Here is Green's entry for the term: ticketty-boon. fine, wonderful, all in order, etc. fr. that's the ticket (?); orig. naval use.

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   How many occurrences of the adjective Tickety-Boo are there?

   • Fewer than 0.01 occurrences per million words in modern written English How is the adjective tickety-boo pronounced? Where does the adjective tickety-boo come from? The earliest known use of the adjective tickety-boo is in the 1930s. OED's earliest evidence for tickety-boo is from 1939, in the writing of Noel Streatfeild, children's writer.

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   What does the adjective tickety-boo mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective tickety-boo . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.