Английский словарь американских идиом - hunky-dory
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Hunky-dory
hunky-dory
{adj.} OK; satisfactory; fine. * /The landlord asked about our new apartment and we told him that so far everything was hunky-dory./
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1.
~ adj informal a situation that is hunky-dory is one in which everyone feels happy and there are no problems ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
2.
adjective Etymology: obsolete English dialect hunk home base + -dory (of unknown origin) Date: 1866 quite satisfactory ; fine ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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5.
1. ам. сл. правильный; хороший, "что надо" 2. ам. сл. здоровый; целый и невредимый ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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7.
- 1866, Amer.Eng. (popularized c.1870 by a Christy Minstrel song), perhaps a reduplication of hunkey "all right, satisfactory" (1861), from hunk "in a safe position" (1847) New York City slang, from Du. honk "goal, home," from M.Du. honc "place of refuge, hiding place." A theory from 1876, however, traces it to Honcho dori, said to be a street in Yokohama, Japan, where sailors went for diversions of the sort sailors enjoy. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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