Meaning of oll korrect | Babel Free

Definitions

All right; okay.

dated, idiomatic

Examples

“It is a curious fact that the telegraph clerks in England and America employ⟳ the letters ‘O. K.,’ when they send⟳ a telegram that a message has been received Oll Korrect.”

“"My Lord!" exclaimed Levin; "that's twenty-five dollars, ain't it, sir?"”

“When faced with the problem of toponymic derivatives, I turn⟳ to Prof. Allen Walker Read⟳, the etymologist who tracked down the source of O.K. (Oll korrect, not Old Kinderhook - stop⟳ writing me about this. O.K.?)”

“[E]verything about Jacob made me think⟳ of sex. Even fairly prosaic things—the way his lips puckered into a pout when he bit into his sandwich, the way he said certain words—minor words, like⟳ the abbreviated oll korrect, also known as okay.”

“Allan Metcalfe's new book . . . devotes a chapter to trying to explain⟳ why readers of the Boston Morning Post⟳ might have⟳ been amused to see⟳ “o. k.” used as a jokey abbreviation for “oll korrect,” an intentional misspelling of “all correct⟳.””

““Well, hell, that's the glory of English. You can speak⟳ it ten thousand different ways, and it's still O. K.” “That barbarous expression! 'O. K.' What does this mean⟳?” “Oll Korrect,” said Calvin. “Making fun of people who care too much about how words get⟳ writ down.””

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