Who coined these two 1800 Cockney terms? A bloody maniac.

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Find me a dime piece.

i flinched he's good

Who coined the term, coined the term???

something to do with minting things

That's the ticket is my favorite line

it's a real shame i can't remember the other batshit Cockney phrase... they pair up well

Like a well-oiled oil well.

Dear Word Detective: I was speaking with my boss this morning after a few days of computer problems, and I explained to him that now everything was running "tickety-boo." Later on I used the same expression to describe something else that was running smoothly. I can only imagine that such a word came from the industrial age when something making such a sound would do so only when "well oiled." Is there any merit to my assumption? -- Scott Blayney.

That's an interesting theory. After all, we do speak of machinery running smoothly as "ticking along" and we use "tick" as a synonym for "operate or function" (as in "What makes Harry tick?"). There's also the famous "pocketa-pocketa" sound of well-oiled machinery that figures prominently in James Thurber's classic short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." The only question I have is where the "boo" would come in. "Boo" isn't the sort of sound I would like my machinery to make. "Boo" seems like a sound that might come built into the next version of Windows.

There are a number of theories about "tickety-boo" (also sometimes spelled "ticketty-boo" and "tiggity-boo") meaning "all in order, correct, satisfactory." The phrase seems to have first appeared around 1939, although slang etymologist Eric Partridge asserted that it dates to the early 1920s. Partridge also believed that "tickety-boo" originated as armed forces slang. If so, it may be a relic of the British colonial presence in India. One of the leading theories about "tickety-boo" traces it to the Hindi "tikai babu," meaning "it's all right, sir." A similar phrase common in the British Army in the mid-20th century, "teek hi" (meaning "all right"), was apparently drawn from the Hindi "thik," meaning "exact or precise."

Another possibility is that "tickety-boo" arose as a modification of "ticket" as found in the phrase "that's the ticket," meaning "that's exactly right" or "that's what we need" (as in "Hand me that big wrench -- that's the ticket."). Of course, "that's the ticket," which dates back to about 1834, has its own slew of possible origins, ranging from a garbling of the French phrase "c'est l'etiquette" (meaning "that's the proper thing or course of action"), to soup tickets given out to the poor of the day, to (the most likely origin in my opinion) a winning lottery ticket.

I suspect that both "tickety-boo" theories are partially correct, and "that's the ticket" strengthened a phrase drawn from Hindi which might otherwise have faded away decades ago. The "boo" is almost certainly simply a nonsense syllable added at some point for emphasis.

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Oh, bloody to hell

How about those oldcootisms?

Dagnabbit
Whippersnappers
Malarkey
Goshdern
E-gads

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I sometimes make up silly words. Was terrible when I were younger. Maybe its a brain tumor?

The last time were Charkovsky for a cup of coffee. Not only does it sound like you are saying the Coff ( without the vefe lol ) Theres also a term' Cup of char I think for a cup of tea. So its perfect. I were the tea boy at a building site because thats my skill. Who tf wants a Charkovsky to the managers etc.

I thought Charkovsky were a composer. Then a fragrence. Seems he invented the water birth.

Seems my brain tumor were correct. He is a musician ( Tchaikovsky ) and there is a perfume ( Histoires De Parfums 1890 La Dame De Pique Tchaikovsky )

Tchaikovsky. 2 sugars please. You have to be respectful even at a starbucks. We are dealing with a legend.

Walzed dern the apple an pairs. Booted tha doorin. Place was a proper Rick Grimes.

Not even Cockney buy the way but I just upgraded the vocab.

Tarded out

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