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"okey-dokey" sounds very much like the Japanese frase "tohkey-dohkey", which means "sometimes". My guess is that, starting sometime around WWII when the U.S. had contact with the Japanese, their language and culture, some soldier probably was joking around and wanted a funny way to say "o.k." and came up with that (having heard the Japanese frase). Makes sense to me....

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