Copasetic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Copasetic , also spelled copacetic , copesetic or - less commonly - kopasetic, means very satisfactory or acceptable. It is one of the few words of seemingly unknown origin that is not consider...
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The most common usage would be to describe a good situation, as in “Everything is copacetic.” I suspect the word may have been popularized, if not coined, during WWII, and I have wondered if it might have been derived from the ... Your theory about the origin of “copacetic” being rooted in “copia” is,
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www.word-detective.com/2007/04/09/copacetic/
www.word-detective.com/2007/04/09/copacetic/
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Unfortunately, none of those books contained the true clue as to the origin of "copacetic" (also spelled "copasetic," by the way, and pronounced "coh-pah-SET-ik"), meaning "fine" or "excellent." Most lexicographers have, with good reason, labeled the term "origin unknown." We do know that "copacetic" first appeared...
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"his smile said that everything was copacetic";[Origin unknown]. ... No explanation of the origin of copacetic, including the ones discussed here, has won the approval of scholars, as is clearly shown by the etymology of copacetic in the first volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English, published in 1985:
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www.pointlessart.com/education/copacetic.html
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co*pa*cet'*ic adj. excellent, first-rate. Nobody seems to know for sure where the work "copacetic" came from. Some say from Italian; some say southern Black dialect or Creole French, while others trace it to Hebrew, and there are ...
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Use copacetic in a Sentence ... (kō'pə-sět'ĭk) adj. Very satisfactory or acceptable; fine: "You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic" (John O'Hara).; [Origin unknown. ... Origin of copacetic...
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dictionary.reference.com/browse/copacetic
dictionary.reference.com/browse/copacetic
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: : : : "Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang" by Tom Dalzell (Merriam-Webster Inc., Springfield, Md., 1996) says that copacetic is a Flapper term from the 1920s. No origin listed.
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One suggestion that’s commonly put forward is that it was originally a word of the African-American community in the USA. The name of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, a famous black tap-dancer, singer and actor of the period round the turn of the twentieth century is commonly linked to this belief about its origin.
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www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cop1.htm
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Whatever its true origin, copacetic was in use by black musicians during the first decade of the twentieth century. Some say the word was invented by the great black tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, who certainly had a lot to do with its spread into popular language.
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