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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An honest, trustworthy person.

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  • noun obsolete, sometimes capitalized An honest, reliable fellow.

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Examples

  • It's all mine right now because truepenny is incommunicado.

    July 26th, 2009 truepenny 2009

  • ... because I am tired of answering these questions in email, one reader at a time, and I bet truepenny is too:

    self-promotion salad johnjosephadams 2007

  • (I'm not sure truepenny is actually saying that there, but that is perfectly her "Oh, I don't think so" expression.

    i am an orphan, on god's highway.... dd_b 2008

  • Some of you will be pleased to note that last night, I wrote the first sentence of An Apprentice to Elves, and truepenny wrote the second one.

    you can't keep the sky from falling anyway truepenny 2009

  • I told truepenny she could play with the wolfses for a while, though.

    across the icy world, the polar bears. it's mostly uphill. truepenny 2009

  • I seem to be nominated for a couple of Locus awards, one of them for "Boojum," written with truepenny, and the other for "Shoggoths in Bloom," which is also up for a Hugo this year.

    et le vert est grand comme un montagne truepenny 2009

  • Then truepenny and I will write A Reckoning of Men, and I will write "Spell 81a" (with stillsostrange) and "Ligature" (all by myself).

    i need a verb coffeeem 2009

  • Write either An Apprentice to Elves or A Reckoning of Men (with truepenny) (or at least get healthily started on it.)

    yes i need you but i'll be damned before i'll say coffeeem 2009

  • In much more interesting news, elisem is posting about the dragon stories that truepenny and I keep writing for each other, based on elisem's dragon necklaces.

    shit! gravity works! aliettedb 2010

  • ETA: Oh, and truepenny and I have sold reprint rights to "Boojum" to the Hartwell & CramerYear's Best SF*, and I have sold reprint rights to Shoggoths in Bloom to the Hartwell & CramerYear's Best F.

    and me and me i think i'm getting there netcurmudgeon 2009

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