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sarcasm's favorite fruit, where everything's fine and nothing actually is.
means Excellent or perfectly fine — though in practice it's mostly said with a sarcastic eye-roll when things are anything but.
from From peach, the fruit, which arrived in English via Old French peche, from Latin persica — literally 'the Persian apple,' since the Romans thought it came from Persia (it actually traveled there from China). The leap to meaning 'splendid' is American slang of the early 20th century, when the peach became a byword for anything delightful or admirable, sometimes stretched into 'peachy-keen.' The sarcasm came later, the way it always does, once a word gets too sweet for its own good.
- origin
- American slang from the 1900s meaning excellent or attractive
- double life
- means great earnestly, terrible sarcastically, same exact tone
- keen cousin
- often paired into peachy keen for full retro flair
- fruit roots
- peaches symbolized longevity and luck in ancient China
georgia peach — georgia produces 40,000 tons annually, the state fruit since 1995
babcock peach — commercial variety developed in 1940s, yellow flesh with superior flavor
redhaven peach — most widely grown freestone variety in north america since the 1940s