What is Jackanory?
1.
story, a Britishism formed in the tradition of Cockney rhyming slang and which derives from an old kids' TV show by that name (featuring a different story every day)
What's the jackanory? (i.e. What happened? What's going on?)
2.
"okey- dokey", everything is fine but not perfect it good be better
"He's got morning glory and lifes a different story
Everythings going jackanory" -Blur "Country House"
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3.
one who feels obliged to talk copious amounts of verbal diarrhoea.
this is what a jackanory might say "this morning i woke up then ate my breakfast which consisted of bacon, eggs, sausages...........then i left the house and missed my train, the next train was cancelled, the next train was full and.........."
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