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Okay—an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.
spelling mkay
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- 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. M1: 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.
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Okay—an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.
spelling mmkay
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Okay—an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.
spelling mmmkay
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- 1999, “It's Easy, MMMKay.” [title, in soundtrack] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- 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 He 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 m’kay
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Okay—an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.
spelling mm-kay
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- 2005, Bill Eisele, Scrub Match http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=7M31jHxhJawC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&sig=no7YkuHLZazkBAuC0ztcd6i9AJI “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 mmm-kay
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
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Nasalized variant of okay. Perhaps popularized by Mr. Mackey's catchphrase in South Park. Earlier use is apparently chiefly in linguistic transcriptions of speech.
Across languages
Translations
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
m’voyez
— (informal) Okay
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French:
m’kay
— (informal) Okay
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Polish:
kej
— (informal) Okay
