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"irie",
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],
[
"all right",
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],
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"a'ight",
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]
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],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Jamaican Creole irie, which is perhaps from English all right. Compare a'ight.\nThe applied context of the remark, may also allude to a corruption of the conjugation of the french verb 'rier', such that, \"I am laughing\", would be a parabolic inference, about 'rightness'.",
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"Cool, nice."
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