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Copacetic:
Variant(s): also co∑pa∑set∑ic or co∑pe∑set∑ic
/
"kO-p&-'se-tik/
Function: adjective
Etymology: origin unknown
Definition: "very satisfactory"
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary online.
World Wide Words: "Fine, excellent, going just right."
Itís possible that this word has created more column inches of
speculation in the USA than any other apart from OK. Itís rare
to the point of invisibility outside North America. People mostly
become aware of it in the sixties as a result of the US space
programóitís very much a Right Stuff kind of word.
"A ...frequent explanation is that it derives from one of
two Hebrew expressions, hakol bíseder, ìall is in orderî, or kol bítzedek, ìall with justiceî, which it is
suggested were introduced into the USA by Yiddish-speaking Jewish
immigrants. Yet other accounts say it derives from a Chinook word copasenee,
ìeverything is satisfactoryî,
once used on the waterways of Washington State, or from the French coupersetique,
from couper, ìto strikeî, or from the French phrase copain(s)
cíest Èpatant! (ìbuddy(s), thatís
great!î).
[Michael
Quinion,
World Wide Words,
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cop1.htm]
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