hotsy-totsy

adjective

hot·​sy-tot·​sy

¦hätsē¦tätsē

slang

: comfortably stable or secure : perfect, ok

had a quarrel, but everything is hotsy-totsy now

Word History

Etymology

coined about 1926 by Billie De Beck †1942 American cartoonist

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