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Such, at any rate, is slang specialist Dalzell's surmise, and the comments by Soukhanov (about the interjectional groovy ) and Morse (about groovy in printed citations) illustrate the point.
Anne H. Soukhanov, who oversaw the most recent (third) edition of the American Heritage Dictionary and is now the North American editor of the Encarta World English Dictionary , recalls coming across the word these days mostly in speech, "especially in sardonic and sarcastic replies to negative-context statements such as 'Dad, I just wrecked your new car' or 'This to inform you that the IRS has targeted you for a 10 year audit,' where its use as an interjectional reply parallels similar use of standard terms like 'beautiful,' 'terrific,' or 'great.
If we will only, for a moment, consider this probability, viz. that there is no good reason for associating this interjectional phrase with a well-known adjective, this will leave us free to look around us, and see whether any other source is possible.
I suspect that the word has long existed in a netherworld between interjectional utility and outright put-on.