a. rare or dial. [f. as prec. + -Y.] Characterized by truth; truthful, true. Hence Truthiness, truthfulness, faithfulness.
c. 1800. J. H. Colls, Theodore, I. You … are afraid Theodore your sweetheart shouldn’t prove truthy.
1824. J. J. Gurney, in Braithwaite, Mem. (1854), I. 242. Everyone who knows her is aware of her truthiness.
1848. Fraser’s Mag., XXXVII. 404. Descriptions of country life and truthy touches of native manners.
1851. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., I. 601. Regino was truthy and honest.
