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Honest-to-goodness

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Adjective

1. honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old, sure-enough

(used informally especially for emphasis)

Example Sentences:
'a real honest-to-god live cowboy'
'had us a high old time'
'went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Honest-to-goodness

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adjective
Informal
genuine; real; authentic
: also ˈhonˈest-to-God

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