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Definition of Truthy
1. a. Truthful; likely; probable.
Definition of Truthy
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Faithful; true ¹
2. Adjective. (slang) Truthful, or seeming to be true ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Truthy
1. truthful [adj TRUTHIER, TRUTHIEST] - See also: truthful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truthy
Literary usage of Truthy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries by William Fordyce Mavor (1802)
"... unnatural motions were, by the vulgar, attributed to the operations of a
divinity ; and, in truthy one would ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"p. 141. TRUT. (1) Stercus. Hearne. (2) The cry of hunters returning home after
the sport is finished. truthy. Faithful ; veracious. East. TRY. (1) To fare. ..."
3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822)
"Of the church, in the first sense, St. Paul affirms; it is " the pillar and ground
of truthy." He spake it of the church of Ephesus, or the holy catholic ..."
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