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tickety-boo, a. colloq.|ˌtɪkətɪˈbuː|
Also ticketty-boo, tiggity-boo, etc.
[Etym. obscure: perh. f. Hindi ṭhīk hai all right; cf. also ticket n.1 9.]
In order, correct, satisfactory.
1939N. Streatfeild Luke 186 Things ought to have shaped right... Couldn't have looked more tickety-boo. 1947Amer. N. & Q. Sept. 94/1 Lord Mountbatten, now Governor General of India, is credited in the New York Times Magazine (June 22, 1947, p. 45) with ‘giving currency’ to the phrase ‘tickety-boo’ (or ‘tiggerty-boo’). This Royal Navy term for ‘okay’ is derived from the Hindustani. 1954‘G. Carr’ Death under Snowdon xi. 143 ‘All tiggity-boo.’ ‘Tiggity―? Never mind, Sergeant. Go on.’ ‘Everything's jake, sir.’ 1957J. Braine Room at Top xxi. 179 Everything was tickety-boo again. 1960D. Fearon Murder-on-Thames xviii. 168 ‘I never killed Mr. Evans either’. ‘Then that's all ticketty-boo.’ 1977Listener 7 Apr. 450/3 Attempting vainly to get everything tickety-boo for the Big Day. 1981S. Rushdie Midnight's Children i. 97 Everything's in fine fettle, don't you agree? Tickety-boo, we used to say. |