Reverse Dictionary: CORRECT

ADJECTIVES
► ABOUT RIGHT correct, adequate → 1850 UK
► AVOIRDUPOIS correct, straight; evenly balanced → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BY THE BOARD correct → World War II US Army sl.
► CAKE-O correct, all right, safe, suitable, what is required, comfortable → 2001 UK back-slang for ‘OK’
► CASTIGATIVE corrective, chastising, punitive → 1641
► CASTIGATORY corrective, chastising, punitive → 1613
► CORRECTORY of the nature of a correction → 1620 obs.
► DEAD ON correct, exactly right → 1888 US sl.
► KOSHER correct, genuine, legitimate → 1896 colloq.
► OKEY-DOKE correct, satisfactory, good, fine, acceptable → 1932 sl., orig. US
► OKEY-DOKIE correct, satisfactory, good → 1942 Amer. sl.
► ON THE BEAM correct; right; on the right track or course → 1941 US sl.
► ON THE NOSE correct, right → 1974 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► R correct, right → 1900s sl.
► RIGHT correct, true; consonant with the facts → 1000
► RIGHT AND PROPER fitting and appropriate; correct and acceptable → 1504
► RIGHT AS MY LEG correct, accurate, true; in good condition, in good order → 1636 obs.
► RIGHT AS RAIN completely correct → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► RIGHTEOUS genuine, authentic; true, correct, exact → 1543 US sl.
► SKEWGEE ► SKEWVEE ► SKRUGEE ► SQUEACHY ► SQUEEGEE correct, fine, as it should be, all right → 1892 Amer. dial.
► VERIMENT correct, veritable, true → c1590 obs.
► VERISIMILITUDINARY having a show of being correct in opinion or judgement → 1675 obs.
► VERITABLE correctly or properly so called; genuine, real, true; not counterfeit or false → 1483

ADVERBS
► ACCORDING TO COCKER correctly, properly → 1785
► ACCORDING TO GUNTER correctly, properly, as laid down by the rules → L19 US sl.
► ACCORDING TO HOYLE correctly, properly, as laid down by the rules → 1906
► BY THE BOOK according to correct procedures; as one should under regulations, law, contract, etc.→ 1840s Amer.
► BY THE NUMBERS precisely, correctly → 1918 US sl.
► HOBBLE-DE-POISE correct, straight; evenly balanced → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OF RIGHT correctly, accurately, truthfully → 1494 obs.
► PUKKA correctly, properly → 1920s sl.
► SINCERELY in a correct or proper manner; without falsification or perversion → 1535 obs.
► TIGHTLY correctly, properly; deftly, neatly; cleverly, dexterously → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.

INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► HOLE IN ONE! absolutely correct! → 1970s sl.
► THAT’S THE TICKET it’s the correct thing, what is wanted, expected or fashionable → 1838 sl.
► YOU SAID IT! that is correct; you are absolutely right! → 1919

NOUNS
► CARD, THE the correct thing; the ‘ticket’ → 1851 colloq.
► CASTIGATION correction, chastisement, corrective punishment or discipline, chastening → c1397 obs.
► CHEESE, THE the correct thing; the fashion; the best; anything first-rate or highly becoming → 1818 sl.
► CHESHIRE, THE the correct or best thing or person → 1841 US sl.
► CORRIGENDUM something requiring correction → 1850
► DANDY, THE the correct thing; the ‘ticket’ → 1784 sl. or colloq.
► DICHELS correction, reproof; a beating, a drubbing → 1794 Sc.
► ELEGANCE correctness of taste → 1660 obs.
► GRINDING-HOUSE a house of correction → 17C sl.
► HAND-SHAKING a correction, punishment; a close engagement, grappling → 1818 Sc.
► LEARNING correction, discipline → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PARADIORTHOSIS a false correction → 1658 obs.
► RIGHTDOING a doing what is right; proper, correct, or moral action → 1556
► RIGHTEOUSNESS correctness, rightness; aptness → 1000 obs.
► SINCERITY correctness; freedom from falsification, adulteration, or alloy; purity → 1546 obs.
► SUMPSIMUS a correct expression taking the place of an incorrect but popular one → 1545
► TICKET, THE the correct or right thing; the exact thing → 1836
► TICKET FOR SOUP, THE the correct or right thing; the exact thing → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VERITABILITY a correct account; a truth or verity; a true statement → 1864
► VERITY a correct account; a true statement, truth → 1533

NOUNS – PERSON
► CORRECTRESS a female corrector → 1611
► CORRECTRICE a female corrector → 1548 obs.
► CORRECTRIX a female corrector → 1618 obs.
► CORRIGIOUR a corrector → 1474 obs.

VERBS
► BEET to correct, to amend; to bring into better state, to put right, to reform faults, evil ways, etc.; to make good misdeeds → c950 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► CALIBRATE to correct someone’s information or opinion → 2003 US sl.
► COBNOBBLE to correct, to beat, to strike, to chastise; to knock on the head → 1826 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► COMB THE KINKS OUT OF ONE to correct faulty notions; to ‘set someone straight’ → 1911 Amer. dial.
► CORRECTIFY to correct, to set right → a1625 obs.
► CORRIGE to correct, to chastise, to punish → c1374 obs. 
► FIND OUT THE SCORE to get the correct information → World War II Amer. sl.
► HIT IT ON THE BUTTON to get it absolutely correct or exactly right → 1925 colloq.
► LISTEN O.K. to sound correct → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NEED BOILING DOWN to need correction or rebuke → 1884 Amer. dial.
► ORDER to correct, to chastise, to punish; to inflict disciplinary punishment on → 1526 obs.
► READY to correct; to set a person right who is wrong → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► REDD to correct, to set right; to rebuke, to scold; to sum up the faults of, to criticize → 1819 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RIGHTIFY to do right by; to set right; to rectify; to correct → 1725
► RIGHTLECHE to correct; to set right; to rectify, to amend a thing → 1000 obs.
► SCHOOL to correct, to rebuke, to scold, to chastise → 1746 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCOUTHER to correct, to reprove, to chastise severely; to blister with rebuke → 1825 Sc.