Honest-to-god

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  honest-to-god
       adj : used informally especially for emphasis; "a real
             honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time";
             "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"
             [syn: {honest-to-goodness}, {old(a)}, {sure-enough(a)}]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "honest-to-God":
     absolute, actual, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying,
     de facto, dinkum, factual, following the letter, for real, genuine,
     good, historical, honest, inartificial, lawful, legitimate,
     lifelike, literal, natural, naturalistic, original, positive, pure,
     real, realistic, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sterling,
     substantial, sure-enough, true, true to life, true to nature,
     true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming,
     uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeniable,
     undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated,
     unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious,
     unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended,
     unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious,
     unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar,
     veritable, word-for-word