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Definition of tickety-boo in English: tickety-booadjective ˌtɪkɪtɪˈbuːˌtɪkədiˈbu British dated, informal predicative In good order; fine. everything is tickety-boo Example sentencesExamples - When matrons ran hospitals and made morning rounds, everything on the wards had to be tickety-boo.
- ‘It would be wrong to buy a business which is 100% tickety-boo because then you would almost certainly have overpaid for it,’ Locke says.
- A liberal spraying of spot lawn weeder and all was tickety-boo.
- They had been heading to another town but stopped in Majar Kabir ‘to check everything was tickety-boo,’ as one senior British soldier told The Observer.
- Hoon must go, but first he must sort out all his advisers who were telling him everything was tickety-boo and it obviously wasn't.
- The situation sounds winningly tickety-boo given that I only understand one sentence in 50.
Synonyms satisfactory, all right, fine, in order, acceptable, up to scratch, up to the mark, up to standard, up to par, competent
Origin 1930s: perhaps from Hindi ṭhīk hai 'all right'. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo Definition of tickety-boo in US English: tickety-booadjectiveˌtikədēˈbo͞oˌtɪkədiˈbu British dated, informal predicative In good order; fine. everything is tickety-boo Example sentencesExamples - When matrons ran hospitals and made morning rounds, everything on the wards had to be tickety-boo.
- They had been heading to another town but stopped in Majar Kabir ‘to check everything was tickety-boo,’ as one senior British soldier told The Observer.
- ‘It would be wrong to buy a business which is 100% tickety-boo because then you would almost certainly have overpaid for it,’ Locke says.
- Hoon must go, but first he must sort out all his advisers who were telling him everything was tickety-boo and it obviously wasn't.
- A liberal spraying of spot lawn weeder and all was tickety-boo.
- The situation sounds winningly tickety-boo given that I only understand one sentence in 50.
Synonyms satisfactory, all right, fine, in order, acceptable, up to scratch, up to the mark, up to standard, up to par, competent
Origin 1930s: perhaps from Hindi ṭhīk hai ‘all right’. |