How to translate?
I looked in the dictionary and can't quite zero on the equivalent in spanish of "hunky dory"
7 Answers
How about something simple such as "ok", "bien", "estupendo", "totalmente satisfecho" ...or something like that.
Hola,
What is "hunky dory"?
aprender100 wrote:
...or dare I say "Jim dandy".
and I found it in my Collin's desktop dictionary - unabridged.---- but (oddly, I thought) written as one word "jimdandy"
jimdandy [?d??m?dænd?] ADJ (US)
estupendo , fenomenal
Surprised to have found "jim dandy" (jimdandy) in the Collin's dictionary, I decided to try for hunky-dory and found an entry:
hunky-dory* [?h??k??d??r?] ADJ
(esp> US)
guay * it's all hunky-dory = es guay del Paraguay
¡Claro que sí... mejor que el pan!
First appeared in song 1862. "Hunkidori. Superlatively good. Said to be a word introduced by Japanese Tommy and to be (or to be derived from) the name of a street, or bazaar, in Yeddo [a.k.a. Tokyo].... Commodore Matthew Perry had opened up trade with the country in the 1850s and there were frequent voyages between the US and Japan by to the 1860s. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hunky-dory.html
What I'd like to know is how you heard of it. Hunky dori is a term mi abuelo would use. Although, he might say it to mean "just fine." or dare I say "Jim dandy".
¡Guay! ¡Excelente! ¡Muy bien!
hunky dory = chévere
Well, close. Both slangish. Everything's hunky dory = todo está bien