Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
duck , duck. - noun A deep dint or furrow.
- noun A contusion.
- noun A small brook.
- noun A flaw in a boys' marble.
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Examples
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Good for LL Cool J for speak out and not playing the okie doke for Faux Nutwork.
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November 20th, 2009 2: 50 pm ET it seems to me if you are black and a member of congress. "you will be geared for failure" set up for the okey doke ..... while the fbi let folks like palin skate and paul bremmer and the vanishing 9 billion dollars go up in smoke w/o a word. and EVERYONE is mumb about.
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We could have taken the okie-doke route and been forgotten about.
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Editorial pages were devoted to the American Okee-doke.
Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and the American Okee-doke 2008
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From the beginning the Press has conspired in perpetuating what the sadly departed and sorely missed George Carlin called the American Okee-doke, the pretty lies and comforting half-truths that our corporate overseers use to keep us in line by getting us to accept the illusion that all is well in this great Republic of ours, feeding us, as Carlin says in his last concert for HBO, "just enough bullshit to hold things together."
Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and the American Okee-doke 2008
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Obama has invented a phrase for actions that smack of politics-as-usual: okey-doke.
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Of the liberal charge, Obama thundered: "Don't let them run that 'okey doke' on you."
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Don't fall for the oke doke, the media trying to spin this.
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In short, their support for him will last as long as he is content to merely repeat the American okee-doke.
Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and the American Okee-doke 2008
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grant_barrett commented on the word doke
This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day.
November 11, 2009
qms commented on the word doke
The gods of old when their wrath awoke
Could carve out canyons with a stroke.
Our modern hallows
Can shape only shallows
And by dint of hard delving dig a doke.
March 1, 2014
qms commented on the word doke
When I google "Wordnik Word of the Day" on March 1, 2014 I am led to a link for "doke" which includes the definitions given on this page (minus the variant spelling of "duck") and a single usage example:
When the dog turns round before lying down to rest, he is said, in the Isle of Wight, to be 'making his doke.'
On this page that usage example is absent and every example offered is for the expression"okey doke," which I would guess is a matter of indifference to that dog on the Isle of Wight. I am puzzled by this.
March 1, 2014