Peachy Keen

Peachy-keen (adj.) first form by 1900, second by about 1955, meaning excellent; wonderful; great; neat. Peach & Coral: "Color of a peach, downy skin newly rouged...Blushes of a thousand women, streaked across the sky..." ~ 'Color of a Peach' (poem by Ruth Ann Powell). “On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads..." ~Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English writer & social critic