Hunky-Dory Hunky-dory is a term that means things are safe, all good, or going well. E.g., "Everything is hunky-dory" But where did the phrase come from? Adobe Stock The Online Etymology Dictionary claims that the phrase hunky-dory may have originated from the Middle Dutch word honc , meaning "place of refuge, hiding place." Honc then evolved into the Dutch word honk , which was used in a Frisian variant of the game of tag (as in guten tag ) to mean the “goal” or “homebase.” The Dutch took this word (and presumably the game, too) overseas from New Amsterdam to New York. The first recorded usage of the term was around the 1840s in New York. Once the children's game hit New York, honk may have evolved into the slang term hunk ("in a safe position," 1847). Perhaps hunk evolved into the cutsie derivative hunkey ("safe, all right, satisfactory," 1861). In other words, to achieve hunk or hunky in a child's game was to make it
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