cheerioint.adj.n.

Brit.

/ˌtʃɪərɪˈəʊ/,

/ˌtʃɛrɪˈəʊ/, U.S.

/ˌtʃɪriˈoʊ/,

/ˌtʃɛriˈoʊ/

Forms: 1800s– cheery ho, 1900s– cheerio, 1900s– cheerioh, 1900s– cheery o, 1900s– cheeryo, 1900s– cherrio, 2000s– cheerie ho.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: cheero int.

Etymology: Apparently an alteration of cheero int. by association with cheery adj. Compare later cheers int.

colloquial.

A. int.

†1. Used to express jubilation. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1852 J. H. R. Bayley Drama of Life 103 He [sc. the Alpine Child] chaseth the wild goat strong and fleet, And lays it bleeding at his feet, Bears it away o'er the frost bound snow, With a merry ‘Hurrah! Cheery ho! Cheery ho!’

2. Used to express good wishes on parting, typically in a cheerful or friendly manner: ‘goodbye’. Also used to suggest that something has been finished with, got rid of, or consigned to the past (cf. goodbye int. 2). Cf. earlier cheero int. 2.Now the usual sense.In early use sometimes as an encouraging expression of farewell; cf. sense A. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of farewell

farewell1377

farewell itc1385

adieua1393

vale?1555

da-da1573

addio1577

goodbye1578

bye1618

adios1635

bye-bye1639

day-day1697

ta-ta1823

ave1850

sayonara1863

hooray1898

cheero1903

toodle-oo1907

hurroo1913

cheerio1914

pip-pip1919

tooraloo1922

cheery-bye1930

cheers1937

tara1958

ciao1961

toodles1965

tatty-bye1971

toodle-pip1977

1914 R. Brooke Let. 20 Nov. (1968) 634 Cheeryo! (as we say in the Navy).

1917 R. P. Weston & B. Lee Good-bye-ee (song) in T. Kendall Poetry of First World War (2013) 230 Bonsoir, old thing! cheerio! chin-chin! Nahpoo! Toodle-oo! Good-bye-ee!

1919 Punch 14 May 374 ‘Cheerio, Parsons, old cracker,’ he shouted wildly.

1943 F. B. Henderson Let. 5 May in Frater of Psi Omega Aug. 106 We care for the British soldiers when they present themselves... Their typical farewell of ‘Cherrio’ will be my parting remark also. So ‘Cherrio.’

1973 P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 116 ‘Well I've got to go now. See you later,’ Tina said... ‘Cheerio,’ Lorna said.

1991 Guardian 9 Mar. a31/1 We can go anywhere, how and when we like. Goodbye mass travel. Cheerio packaged hell.

2001 H. Collins No Smoke viii. 117 ‘Cheerio, son’ she calls after him as he flits down the staircase and into the street.

3. Used as an expression of encouragement: ‘take heart’, ‘be cheerful’. Cf. earlier cheero int. 3. Now rare.Chiefly used during or with reference to the First World War (1914–18) or the Second World War (1939–45).

ΚΠ

1918 M. Gray Black Opal 309 Lots of jolly things about. Cheerio! Be a good girl and buck up.

1925 Cook County (Illinois) Herald 20 Mar. There's better times a-coming, Cheerio! Cheerio!

1941 E. Y. Harburg in Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 3 (Libr. of Congr. Copyright Office) (1943) 38 391/1 (title of song) Chin Up! Cheerio! Carry on.

2009 G. Keillor Pilgrims 175 It made Margie feel like a heroine in a war movie, a nurse during the Blitz, telling her charges to buck up, cheerio, stiff upper lip.

4. Used as a friendly greeting. Cf. earlier cheero int. 1. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1919 W. B. Maxwell Life can never be Same 241 ‘Cheerio!’ said Henderson, in a confidentially quiet greeting, so as not to disturb the sergeant.

1964 Kenyon Rev. 26 124 Her awful greeting was, ‘Cheerio, boys and girls! Everybody get out of the right side of bed this morning, I hope, I hope?’

2013 MSNBC (transcript) (Nexis) 25 July Welcome, cheerio, jolly good to have you with us.

5. Used as a toast or salutation before drinking; = cheers int. 1a. Cf. cheero int. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking salutations [interjection]

rivoa1593

my service to you1637

tope1651

three times three1683

hob or nob1756

bottoms up!1858

chin chin1888

here's hoping, how, looking (at you), luck1896

down the hatch1918

cheerio1919

cheero1919

(here's) mud in your eye1927

cheers1930

lechayim1932

salut1933

salud1938

1919 Liaison 20 Sept. 131/2 ‘Cheerio,’ said one of the Englishmen, raising his glass.

1930 W. H. Auden Poems 12 C. Thanks. Prosit. K. Cheerio.

1971 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 23/2 Major Hogg Sahib, he say every time, ‘Chin Chin! Cherrio, Sambo!’

1991 D. Lucie Fashion (rev. ed.) i. iii, in Fashion, Progress, Hard Feelings, Doing the Business 23 Nectar of the gods. Dublin-brewed. Nothing like it. A glassful of history. Cheerio.

2008 Times (Nexis) 10 Sept. (Times2 section) 8 Bacon staggers to his feet, declares ‘Cheerio’ and fills their glasses again.

B. adj.

Cheerful, merry, in good spirits. Cf. earlier cheero adj. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective]

blithe971

gladOE

blithemod1065

jollya1350

well begonea1425

well-cheered1435

hearty1440

cheery1448

cheerfula1477

chereful1486

unsweera1500

cheerly1565

riant1567

hilaire1575

light-spirited1581

undistempered1589

comfortablea1593

well-humoured1600

good-humoured1604

rident1609

hoddy1664

chicket1682

mellow1711

blithesome1724

in spirits1747

winsome1787

hilarious1823

resilient1830

blithe-hearted1848

cheero1903

bucked1907

cheerio1918

1918 Sketch 18 Dec. 350/1 He would have carried on in a cheerio spirit for just a day or two more.

1921 H. Jenkins Mrs. Bindle ii. 51 Never seen 'er so cheerio in all my puff.

1948 P. G. Wodehouse Spring Fever x. 99 You could not have found a more cheerio butler.

1960 R. Frost in R. Cook R. Frost: Living Voice (1974) xiii. 142 And then Browning—they quote him in a sort of shallow, cheerio kind of way.

C. n.

An instance of saying ‘cheerio’ (in various senses); (now) esp. a valediction, a goodbye. Cf. earlier cheero n.

ΚΠ

1919 A. E. Smylie Marines 53 Your letters are the jolliest That reach this salient; Cheerios to buck me up When, feeling like a lonesome pup [etc.].

1920 P. G. Wodehouse Little Warrior viii. 148 Much as the wounded soldier would have felt if Sir Philip Sidney, instead of offering him the cup of water, had placed it to his own lips and drained it with a careless ‘Cheerio!’

1944 Pop. Photogr. Nov. 87/1 My friend..waved me off with a ‘Cheerio’.

1980 Pilbara Times (Port Hedland) 24 Jan. 7/3 A big cheerio to a grand old man, Bill Bell, who is a patient in the Onslow hospital.

2002 Mirror (Nexis) 17 July 51 No fuss, no ceremony, no tearful goodbyes. Just a couple of gruff handshakes and a cheerio.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cheerio
释义	cheerioint.adj.n. Brit. /ˌtʃɪərɪˈəʊ/, /ˌtʃɛrɪˈəʊ/, U.S. /ˌtʃɪriˈoʊ/, /ˌtʃɛriˈoʊ/ Forms: 1800s– cheery ho, 1900s– cheerio, 1900s– cheerioh, 1900s– cheery o, 1900s– cheeryo, 1900s– cherrio, 2000s– cheerie ho. Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: cheero int. Etymology: Apparently an alteration of cheero int. by association with cheery adj. Compare later cheers int. colloquial. A. int. †1. Used to express jubilation. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1852 J. H. R. Bayley Drama of Life 103 He [sc. the Alpine Child] chaseth the wild goat strong and fleet, And lays it bleeding at his feet, Bears it away o'er the frost bound snow, With a merry ‘Hurrah! Cheery ho! Cheery ho!’ 2. Used to express good wishes on parting, typically in a cheerful or friendly manner: ‘goodbye’. Also used to suggest that something has been finished with, got rid of, or consigned to the past (cf. goodbye int. 2). Cf. earlier cheero int. 2.Now the usual sense.In early use sometimes as an encouraging expression of farewell; cf. sense A. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of farewell farewell1377 farewell itc1385 adieua1393 vale?1555 da-da1573 addio1577 goodbye1578 bye1618 adios1635 bye-bye1639 day-day1697 ta-ta1823 ave1850 sayonara1863 hooray1898 cheero1903 toodle-oo1907 hurroo1913 cheerio1914 pip-pip1919 tooraloo1922 cheery-bye1930 cheers1937 tara1958 ciao1961 toodles1965 tatty-bye1971 toodle-pip1977 1914 R. Brooke Let. 20 Nov. (1968) 634 Cheeryo! (as we say in the Navy). 1917 R. P. Weston & B. Lee Good-bye-ee (song) in T. Kendall Poetry of First World War (2013) 230 Bonsoir, old thing! cheerio! chin-chin! Nahpoo! Toodle-oo! Good-bye-ee! 1919 Punch 14 May 374 ‘Cheerio, Parsons, old cracker,’ he shouted wildly. 1943 F. B. Henderson Let. 5 May in Frater of Psi Omega Aug. 106 We care for the British soldiers when they present themselves... Their typical farewell of ‘Cherrio’ will be my parting remark also. So ‘Cherrio.’ 1973 P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 116 ‘Well I've got to go now. See you later,’ Tina said... ‘Cheerio,’ Lorna said. 1991 Guardian 9 Mar. a31/1 We can go anywhere, how and when we like. Goodbye mass travel. Cheerio packaged hell. 2001 H. Collins No Smoke viii. 117 ‘Cheerio, son’ she calls after him as he flits down the staircase and into the street. 3. Used as an expression of encouragement: ‘take heart’, ‘be cheerful’. Cf. earlier cheero int. 3. Now rare.Chiefly used during or with reference to the First World War (1914–18) or the Second World War (1939–45). ΚΠ 1918 M. Gray Black Opal 309 Lots of jolly things about. Cheerio! Be a good girl and buck up. 1925 Cook County (Illinois) Herald 20 Mar. There's better times a-coming, Cheerio! Cheerio! 1941 E. Y. Harburg in Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 3 (Libr. of Congr. Copyright Office) (1943) 38 391/1 (title of song) Chin Up! Cheerio! Carry on. 2009 G. Keillor Pilgrims 175 It made Margie feel like a heroine in a war movie, a nurse during the Blitz, telling her charges to buck up, cheerio, stiff upper lip. 4. Used as a friendly greeting. Cf. earlier cheero int. 1. Now rare. ΚΠ 1919 W. B. Maxwell Life can never be Same 241 ‘Cheerio!’ said Henderson, in a confidentially quiet greeting, so as not to disturb the sergeant. 1964 Kenyon Rev. 26 124 Her awful greeting was, ‘Cheerio, boys and girls! Everybody get out of the right side of bed this morning, I hope, I hope?’ 2013 MSNBC (transcript) (Nexis) 25 July Welcome, cheerio, jolly good to have you with us. 5. Used as a toast or salutation before drinking; = cheers int. 1a. Cf. cheero int. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking salutations [interjection] rivoa1593 my service to you1637 tope1651 three times three1683 hob or nob1756 bottoms up!1858 chin chin1888 here's hoping, how, looking (at you), luck1896 down the hatch1918 cheerio1919 cheero1919 (here's) mud in your eye1927 cheers1930 lechayim1932 salut1933 salud1938 1919 Liaison 20 Sept. 131/2 ‘Cheerio,’ said one of the Englishmen, raising his glass. 1930 W. H. Auden Poems 12 C. Thanks. Prosit. K. Cheerio. 1971 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 23/2 Major Hogg Sahib, he say every time, ‘Chin Chin! Cherrio, Sambo!’ 1991 D. Lucie Fashion (rev. ed.) i. iii, in Fashion, Progress, Hard Feelings, Doing the Business 23 Nectar of the gods. Dublin-brewed. Nothing like it. A glassful of history. Cheerio. 2008 Times (Nexis) 10 Sept. (Times2 section) 8 Bacon staggers to his feet, declares ‘Cheerio’ and fills their glasses again. B. adj. Cheerful, merry, in good spirits. Cf. earlier cheero adj. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] blithe971 gladOE blithemod1065 jollya1350 well begonea1425 well-cheered1435 hearty1440 cheery1448 cheerfula1477 chereful1486 unsweera1500 cheerly1565 riant1567 hilaire1575 light-spirited1581 undistempered1589 comfortablea1593 well-humoured1600 good-humoured1604 rident1609 hoddy1664 chicket1682 mellow1711 blithesome1724 in spirits1747 winsome1787 hilarious1823 resilient1830 blithe-hearted1848 cheero1903 bucked1907 cheerio1918 1918 Sketch 18 Dec. 350/1 He would have carried on in a cheerio spirit for just a day or two more. 1921 H. Jenkins Mrs. Bindle ii. 51 Never seen 'er so cheerio in all my puff. 1948 P. G. Wodehouse Spring Fever x. 99 You could not have found a more cheerio butler. 1960 R. Frost in R. Cook R. Frost: Living Voice (1974) xiii. 142 And then Browning—they quote him in a sort of shallow, cheerio kind of way. C. n. An instance of saying ‘cheerio’ (in various senses); (now) esp. a valediction, a goodbye. Cf. earlier cheero n. ΚΠ 1919 A. E. Smylie Marines 53 Your letters are the jolliest That reach this salient; Cheerios to buck me up When, feeling like a lonesome pup [etc.]. 1920 P. G. Wodehouse Little Warrior viii. 148 Much as the wounded soldier would have felt if Sir Philip Sidney, instead of offering him the cup of water, had placed it to his own lips and drained it with a careless ‘Cheerio!’ 1944 Pop. Photogr. Nov. 87/1 My friend..waved me off with a ‘Cheerio’. 1980 Pilbara Times (Port Hedland) 24 Jan. 7/3 A big cheerio to a grand old man, Bill Bell, who is a patient in the Onslow hospital. 2002 Mirror (Nexis) 17 July 51 No fuss, no ceremony, no tearful goodbyes. Just a couple of gruff handshakes and a cheerio. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < int.adj.n.1852
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