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OK, thank you. OK actually traces back to an 1830s fad of intentionally misspelling abbreviations.
Young “intellectual” types in Boston delighted those “in the know” with butchered coded messages such as KC, or “knuff ced”, KY, “know yuse,” and OW, “oll wright.”
Haha. But thanks to a couple of lucky breaks, one abbreviation rose above the rest: OK, or “oll korrect."
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A lout, rogue or rustic person.
“The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, with clubs and clouted shoon”
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