zip-a-dee-doo-dah

Meanings

Interjection

• An exclamation of happiness.

Adjective

• Characteristic of such a feeling.

Origin

• From a song in the Disney movie Song of the South, from “O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day”, chorus to an old minstrel song “Zip Coon” popularized by George Washington Dixon{{cite-book
• |date=1998-08-21
• |title=Doo~Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture
• |first=Ken
• |last=Emerson
• |publisher=Da Capo Press
• |isbn=9780306808524
• |ol=9503352M
• |page=60
• |pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ousn0lWqeisC&pg=PA60&dq=zip-a-dee-doo-dah
• |passage=In addition to its enduring incarnation as “Turkey in the Straw,” “Zip Coon,” or at least its nonsencical chorus—"O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day"—also survives in “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,” from the soundtrack for Song of the South, Walt Disney’s animated version of Joel Chandler Harris’s “Uncle Remus” tales.
• {{cite-book
• |date=2010-04-15
• |title=Stephen Foster & Co.: Lyrics of America's First Great Popular Songs
• |editor=Ken Emerson
• |location=New York
• |publisher=Library of America
• |isbn=9781598530704
• |ol=24478285M
• |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=5pcrAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Zip+coon%22
• |pages=30-31