Definitions
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
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It's all mine right now because truepenny is incommunicado.
July 26th, 2009 truepenny 2009
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... 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
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(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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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