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別の表記

• OK, O.K., ok, okeh, okey

語源

A respelling of OK.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, stressed form) IPA: /ˌəʊˈkeɪ/
• (General American, stressed form) IPA: /ˌoʊˈkeɪ/
• (Ghanaian) IPA: [ˌɔˈkej]
• (unstressed form) IPA: /əˈkeɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ
• ハイフネーション: o‧kay

名詞

okay (plural okays)

1. Alternative spelling of OK.

動詞

okay (third-person singular simple present okays, present participle okaying, simple past and past participle okayed)

1. Alternative spelling of OK.
   • 1970, Leslie Waller, chapter 8, in The American: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60:

     They [the English] turned her [Joan of Arc] over to the mercies of the Church to make sure the murder was a blessed one. All soldiers are superstitious, I suppose. Nobody wanted to kill an obvious saint unless the Church okayed it.

形容詞

okay (comparative more okay or okayer, superlative most okay or okayest)

1. Alternative spelling of OK.
   • 1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

     One of us must marry well. Meg didn't, Jo won't, Beth can't yet, so I shall, and make everything okay all round.

副詞

okay (comparative more okay, superlative most okay)

1. Alternative spelling of OK.

間投詞

okay

1. Alternative spelling of OK.

派生語

アナグラム

• kayo, oaky, yoak