| 单词 | for true |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfor true g. Chiefly U.S. (esp. in African-American usage). for true: (as adjective) true, genuine; (as adverb) truly, really. ΚΠ 1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene (1877) xix. 15/2 ‘You don't ask me to spare your life, then’? replied the negro. ‘He de very first white dat not ask it’, said one of the negroes. ‘Dat really for true’, said another. ‘Yes, by gum’, replied a third. 1862 W. G. Hamley Capt. Clutterbuck's Champagne vii. 143 De busha (overseer) no tief nuttin hisself, and no allow no-body else for tief nuttin'. He too honest for true. 1887 in Amer. Speech (1950) 25 39/2 When a for-true doctor come to see him. 1960 T. Cade Bambara Mississippi Ham Rider in Gorilla, My Love (1972) 53 Now is it for true..you taking Mr. Ham to New York to sing? 2016 K. Miller Augustown (2017) vii. 70 Norah lifted her daughter up into her arms so that she could get an even better view of things. ‘Yes, baby. You right,’ Norah whispered. ‘Bedward flying for true.’ < as lemmas |
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