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righto

interjectionattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɹaɪtəʊ//
  • United States//ˈɹaɪtoʊ//

Okay; all right.

interjection

  1. 1

    Okay; all right.

    "You can count me in." "It may be really rather formidable. We shall have possibly to tackle a prize-fighter." "Right-o!" said Malone, cheerfully.

    ‘Feel like exploring? It is nearly dinner-time anyway.’ ‘Right-oh.’

Etymology

Etymology tree English right Latin ō Old French ohbor. Middle English o English O ▲ Middle English o English oh English -o English righto From right + -o.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).