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"ref": "1999, Tom Bradley, Black Class Cur http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Fdo3ky2yq-sC&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&sig=PGLARdInWR86z9kI3MQaQKe5G9s",
"roman": "“M’kay.”",
"text": "I’ll tell you a secret if you promise not to tell anybody, not even the missus, m’kay?"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Bill Hunt and Todd Doogan, The Digital Bits: Insider’s Guide to DVD http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=ZPvgA1QU1BMC&pg=PA294&lpg=PA294&sig=hJv3zSuA9sriREBxGXxi7ZevcuQ",
"text": "But do keep in mind that this film [viz. South Park] is not for the faint of heart, and it ain’t for kids, m’kay?"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
"spelling m’kay"
],
"links": [
[
"Okay",
"okay"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
"spelling m’kay"
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2000, Tom Bradley, Hustling the East http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=GYnGE49yhPsC&pg=PA236&lpg=PA236&sig=JIS7zjR3YOAzjIW-jrKuyOrxpQM",
"text": "She didn’t ask what that was supposed to mean, but tallied a while on her fingertips and obliged him.\n“Mm-kay, bye.”"
},
{
"text": "2005, Bill Eisele, Scrub Match http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=7M31jHxhJawC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&sig=no7YkuHLZazkBAuC0ztcd6i9AJI\n“All I’m saying,” the Asian man said, “is it’s about time she got a whiff of her own breath. Mm-kay?”"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
"spelling mm-kay"
],
"links": [
[
"Okay",
"okay"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
"spelling mm-kay"
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2005, Michael Collins, Hot Lights, Cold Steel",
"roman": "“Mmm-kay.”",
"text": "Well, I’m going to take a picture of your arm and then this nice doctor is going to fix it for you, okay?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
"spelling mmm-kay"
],
"links": [
[
"Okay",
"okay"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
"spelling mmm-kay"
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mːˈkeɪ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ŋˈkeɪ]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mkay"
},
{
"word": "mmkay"
},
{
"word": "mm-kay"
},
{
"word": "mmmkay"
},
{
"word": "mmm-kay"
},
{
"word": "mmk"
},
{
"word": "mk"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(informal) Okay",
"tags": [
"France"
],
"word": "m’voyez"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(informal) Okay",
"tags": [
"Quebec"
],
"word": "m’kay"
}
],
"word": "m'kay"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (ee658f9 and be4df6b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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