Definitions for true-blue

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Spelling: [troo-bloo]
IPA: /ˈtruˈblu/

True-Blue is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in true-blue (-beelrtuu).

Definitions for true-blue

noun

  1. a nonfading blue dye or pigment.
  2. a person who is true-blue.
  3. (in the 17th century) the color adopted by the Covenanters in contradistinction to the royal red.

adjective

  1. unwaveringly loyal or faithful; staunch; unchangingly true.

Origin of true-blue

First recorded in 1665-75

Examples for true-blue

Her going means a return to work, and you hate to work if you are a convalescent of the true-blue sort.

Rebel spy or true-blue loyalist, he is safe enough for the present.

But that misses the danger of an enthusiasm gap among those who thought they were getting a true-blue progressive in 2008.

He was not born on our soil, but he was a true-blue American for all that.

He was derided as a true-blue conservative with less charisma than his sweater vest.

If there is to-day a true-blue, a frank and out-spoken Democratic newspaper in the city of Boston, we do not know its name.

Thence, after the Reformation, it passed into the hands of a true-blue Protestant family.

All things considered, he resolved to face the bovine thunderbolt with unflinching front, like a true-blue British tar!

You're true-blue all through, without a streak of yellow in the whole of your composition.

Candidates like Scott Walker are true-blue conservatives, but also, as Robinson, who is African-American, sees it, too white.

Word Value for true-blue
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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