"oll korrect" meaning in English

See oll korrect in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

Etymology: A deliberate, humorous corruption of all correct, dating from the 1830s, recognized as one of several possible origins for the term OK. Etymology templates: {{m|en|all correct}} all correct, {{m|en|OK}} OK Head templates: {{en-interj|head=oll korrect}} oll korrect
  1. (idiomatic, dated) All right; okay. Tags: dated, idiomatic Synonyms: Oll Korrect
    Sense id: en-oll_korrect-en-intj-aDtw4BKB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1884, George Alfred Townsend, The Entailed Hat, or Patty Cannon's Times, Harper & Brothers, p. 182 (Google preview)",
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          "text": "\"My Lord!\" exclaimed Levin; \"that's twenty-five dollars, ain't it, sir?\""
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          "text": "When faced with the problem of toponymic derivatives, I turn to Prof. Allen Walker Read, the etymologist who tracked down the source of O.K. (Oll korrect, not Old Kinderhook - stop writing me about this. O.K.?)",
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          "text": "[E]verything about Jacob made me think of sex. Even fairly prosaic things—the way his lips puckered into a pout when he bit into his sandwich, the way he said certain words—minor words, like the abbreviated oll korrect, also known as okay.",
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          "ref": "2010 October 28, Jeremy McCarter, “Party at the OK Corral”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2014-01-23",
          "text": "Allan Metcalfe's new book . . . devotes a chapter to trying to explain why readers of the Boston Morning Post might have been amused to see “o. k.” used as a jokey abbreviation for “oll korrect,” an intentional misspelling of “all correct.”",
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