"m'kay" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Nasalized variant of okay. Perhaps popularized by Mr. Mackey's catchphrase in South Park; earlier, apparently chiefly in linguistic transcriptions of speech.",
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        {
          "ref": "1991, Barbara A. Fox, “Cognitive and Interactional Aspects of Correction in Tutoring,” in Teaching Knowledge and Intelligent Tutoring, Peter Goodyear ed. http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=I36Zzj7B7pgC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&sig=ZZYBrtCu62xusRHVxW0AAjsisuQ",
          "roman": "T. Mhm",
          "text": "In these tutoring sessions we have found that, when the tutor agrees with the student’s displayed understanding, her signal of confirmation comes quickly after the student’s turn, as in:\nS. Mkay.\nhh. And I know it’s negative, just to follow your thought process, because I know that the sine is positive."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Herbert H Clark, Arenas of Language Use http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=iRlL1nmsB-4C&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&sig=MzayaXWqjqReOg6XyNY2ES7Ycn4",
          "text": "… the director would go on only when both were satisfied the matcher had understood, as here:\nD. The long view of the quad uh walkway\nM. those\nM. ┌ numbers right?\nD. └ is number 5\nM. Mkay\nD. Yeah with the numbers on the bottom."
        },
        {
          "text": "1995, Charles Conrad and Lucinda Sinclair-James, “Institutional Pressures, Cultural Constraints, and Communication in Community Mediation Organizations,” in Conflict and Organizations, Anne Maydan Nicotera ed.\nM1: Mkay. Let me point us back to. This is related to um what we were talking about and how you’re going to um sort of report what happened here tonight."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=txlWQXzOIukC&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&sig=xzYsGkjZNOFHeKU7vnfoysmeOH0",
          "text": "My bold, Crocodile Hunter “Absolutely” withered into “mkay” with the end of the word lilted up like a desperate question."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Deanna Kizis, How to Meet Cute Boys http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=QAu5foUdyEkC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&sig=oNcYAAFSGryL3NbegfxWLHkDy8M",
          "text": "That has nothing to do with star-power crap and everything to do with keeping it real, mkay?"
        }
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        "Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling mkay"
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        [
          "Okay",
          "okay"
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        "(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling mkay"
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          "ref": "1997: Christina S. Beck, Partnership for Health (dead link)",
          "text": "C: I want you to re:st (.) re:st (.) as much as you can do (.) is just re:st (.) hhh when >you go< home (.) >you tell< your husband you make dinner honey (.) hhh you take care of me (.) . . . I need >to set< down (.) I need >to rest< (.)\nP: mmkay (.)\nC: and >get down< (.) watch your sodium (.) the salt="
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Abbe Diaz, PX This (dead link)",
          "text": "well i used to have some skilled sticky fingers of my own back in the day so i know a shoplifted dress when i see one mmkay."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Catherine Delaney, The Rosameorns (dead link)",
          "text": "I looked back to him...mmkay brown hair dark eyes...high cheek bones that lucky monkey I wonder if he has some native American."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Jenny Colgan, Boy I Loved Before (dead link)",
          "text": "She was sitting perched on her desk, in that nonchalant, ‘mmkay?’ way teachers do when they’re trying to pretend they’re down with the kids."
        }
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        "(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling mmkay"
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        {
          "text": "1999, “It's Easy, MMMKay.” [title, in soundtrack] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Victoria Schmitz, If It’s Not One Thing It’s the Other http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=lFcLqmFytiMC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&sig=H_Qm7nTzqEzS470vfocV9c74reI",
          "text": "Let’s get all this straight. He took me to a place he hates to see if I like it. Mmmkay."
        },
        {
          "text": "2004, Stephanie Lehmann, Are You in the Mood http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=ECabx9_RoXAC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&sig=pW9_uvNdBOBHc__4hwhYzAfhRWs\nHe told her she could sleep in if she liked. “Mmmkay,” she said without opening her eyes, and he kissed her good-bye."
        }
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        "Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling mmmkay"
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        [
          "Okay",
          "okay"
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        "(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling mmmkay"
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        "informal"
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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?"
        }
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        "Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling m’kay"
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        "(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling m’kay"
      ],
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        "informal"
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          "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?”"
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        "spelling mm-kay"
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        "(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
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          "ref": "2005, Michael Collins, Hot Lights, Cold Steel:",
          "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?”\n“Mmm-kay.”",
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        "(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
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      "ipa": "/mːˈkeɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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    },
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      "ipa": "[ŋˈkeɪ]",
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        "US"
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      "_dis1": "17 17 17 17 17 17",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(informal) Okay",
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      "word": "m’voyez"
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  "wikipedia": [
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  "etymology_text": "Nasalized variant of okay. Perhaps popularized by Mr. Mackey's catchphrase in South Park; earlier, apparently chiefly in linguistic transcriptions of speech.",
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          "ref": "1991, Barbara A. Fox, “Cognitive and Interactional Aspects of Correction in Tutoring,” in Teaching Knowledge and Intelligent Tutoring, Peter Goodyear ed. http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=I36Zzj7B7pgC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&sig=ZZYBrtCu62xusRHVxW0AAjsisuQ",
          "roman": "T. Mhm",
          "text": "In these tutoring sessions we have found that, when the tutor agrees with the student’s displayed understanding, her signal of confirmation comes quickly after the student’s turn, as in:\nS. Mkay.\nhh. And I know it’s negative, just to follow your thought process, because I know that the sine is positive."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Herbert H Clark, Arenas of Language Use http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=iRlL1nmsB-4C&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&sig=MzayaXWqjqReOg6XyNY2ES7Ycn4",
          "text": "… the director would go on only when both were satisfied the matcher had understood, as here:\nD. The long view of the quad uh walkway\nM. those\nM. ┌ numbers right?\nD. └ is number 5\nM. Mkay\nD. Yeah with the numbers on the bottom."
        },
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          "text": "1995, Charles Conrad and Lucinda Sinclair-James, “Institutional Pressures, Cultural Constraints, and Communication in Community Mediation Organizations,” in Conflict and Organizations, Anne Maydan Nicotera ed.\nM1: Mkay. Let me point us back to. This is related to um what we were talking about and how you’re going to um sort of report what happened here tonight."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=txlWQXzOIukC&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&sig=xzYsGkjZNOFHeKU7vnfoysmeOH0",
          "text": "My bold, Crocodile Hunter “Absolutely” withered into “mkay” with the end of the word lilted up like a desperate question."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Deanna Kizis, How to Meet Cute Boys http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=QAu5foUdyEkC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&sig=oNcYAAFSGryL3NbegfxWLHkDy8M",
          "text": "That has nothing to do with star-power crap and everything to do with keeping it real, mkay?"
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          "ref": "1997: Christina S. Beck, Partnership for Health (dead link)",
          "text": "C: I want you to re:st (.) re:st (.) as much as you can do (.) is just re:st (.) hhh when >you go< home (.) >you tell< your husband you make dinner honey (.) hhh you take care of me (.) . . . I need >to set< down (.) I need >to rest< (.)\nP: mmkay (.)\nC: and >get down< (.) watch your sodium (.) the salt="
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Abbe Diaz, PX This (dead link)",
          "text": "well i used to have some skilled sticky fingers of my own back in the day so i know a shoplifted dress when i see one mmkay."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Catherine Delaney, The Rosameorns (dead link)",
          "text": "I looked back to him...mmkay brown hair dark eyes...high cheek bones that lucky monkey I wonder if he has some native American."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Jenny Colgan, Boy I Loved Before (dead link)",
          "text": "She was sitting perched on her desk, in that nonchalant, ‘mmkay?’ way teachers do when they’re trying to pretend they’re down with the kids."
        }
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        "Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling mmkay"
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        "spelling mmkay"
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        {
          "text": "1999, “It's Easy, MMMKay.” [title, in soundtrack] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Victoria Schmitz, If It’s Not One Thing It’s the Other http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=lFcLqmFytiMC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&sig=H_Qm7nTzqEzS470vfocV9c74reI",
          "text": "Let’s get all this straight. He took me to a place he hates to see if I like it. Mmmkay."
        },
        {
          "text": "2004, Stephanie Lehmann, Are You in the Mood http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=ECabx9_RoXAC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&sig=pW9_uvNdBOBHc__4hwhYzAfhRWs\nHe told her she could sleep in if she liked. “Mmmkay,” she said without opening her eyes, and he kissed her good-bye."
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          "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?"
        }
      ],
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        "Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling m’kay"
      ],
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      "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"
      ],
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        {
          "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?”"
        }
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        "Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling mm-kay"
      ],
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        [
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        "(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling mm-kay"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Michael Collins, Hot Lights, Cold Steel:",
          "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?”\n“Mmm-kay.”",
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        "spelling mmm-kay"
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        "(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.",
        "spelling mmm-kay"
      ],
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        "informal"
      ]
    }
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    },
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      "word": "mmkay"
    },
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      "word": "mm-kay"
    },
    {
      "word": "mmmkay"
    },
    {
      "word": "mmm-kay"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(informal) Okay",
      "tags": [
        "France"
      ],
      "word": "m’voyez"
    },
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(informal) Okay",
      "tags": [
        "Quebec"
      ],
      "word": "m’kay"
    }
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}