different between copasetic vs copacetic

English

Adjective

copasetic (comparative more copasetic, superlative most copasetic)

1. Alternative spelling of copacetic
   • 2009-10, Robert Ellis, The Lost Witness, page 322:

     No reason to mention that the man with the gun in the alley had a new buddy and that they had moved closer and were eyeing the fire escape. She drew her weapon from her belt and rocked the slide back. It was a .45 Smith & Wesson. She watched Rhodes check his Glock. Everything was copasetic. Everything tuned and amped up. There was no clean way to walk out of Bloom's apartment.

Anagrams

• cacoepist

English

Alternative forms

• copasetic, kopasetic

Etymology

Stephen Goranson says "there is good reason to think that Irving Bacheller invented the word [with spelling "copasetic"] for a fictional character with a private vocabulary in his best-selling and later-serialized 1919 book about Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, A Man for the Ages, and its currency increased by use in the 1920 song "At the New Jump Steady Ball". Alternatively, it has been speculated that it may have originated among African Americans in the Southern US in the late 19th or early 20th century, perhaps specifically in the jargon of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, who certainly helped popularize it in any case. Many hypotheses about its origin (etymon) exist, all lacking supporting evidence:

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??.p??s?t.?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?.p??s?t.?k/

Adjective

copacetic (comparative more copacetic, superlative most copacetic)

1. (US, slang) Fine, excellent, OK, in excellent order.

Translations

References

• World Wide Words
• Michael Quinion (2004) , “Copacetic”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN