SURE-ENOUGH • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Sure-enough

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ʃʊr-ɪnˈəf/ Listen

Sure-enough

adjective

(used informally especially for emphasis). Synonyms: honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old. "Had us a high old time" , "Went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"

See images of 'Sure-enough'

Etymology of 'Sure-enough'

Share |

"Sure-enough" Quotes from Famous Books

... sprang from a line of clerks and small merchants; but as indemnity for the lack of a family 'scutcheon, we are told that his uncle, Reuben Browning, was a sure-enough poet. For once in an idle hour he threw off a little thing for an inscription to be placed on a presentation ink-bottle, and Disraeli seeing it, declared, "Nothing like this has ever before ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

Words linked to "Sure-enough" : old, honest-to-god, echt, genuine