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hotsy-totsy

adjective
hot·​sy-tot·​sy | \¦hätsē¦tätsē\

Definition of hotsy-totsy 

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: comfortably stable or secure : perfect, ok had a quarrel, but everything is hotsy-totsy now

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History and Etymology for hotsy-totsy

coined about 1926 by Billie De Beck †1942 American cartoonist

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