From tell + troth (“truth”). tell-troth (plural tell-troths) (obsolete) Alternative spelling of tell-truth 1650, Thomas Fuller, “The Wilderness of Paran”...
See also: Troth WOTD – 14 October 2018 From Middle English troth, trothe, trouthe, trowthe, a variant of treuth, treuthe, treouthe (“allegiance, fidelity...
tell-troth, telltroth, telltruth From tell + truth. tell-truth (plural tell-truths) (obsolete) An honest and truthful person. 1643, NIcholas Lockyer,...
tell the time tell the truth tell-troth tell-truth tell us another tell us another one tell volumes tell-worthy tell you the truth tell you what time...
troth brother dear, said he / As I shall tell you a faithful tale [...] A fact or truth. English: truth, troth Scots: trowth, trewth “treuth, n.”, in MED...
inflated bulky appearance, "come and sit down here and tell me how it fares with you; but, by my troth, you are nothing but skin and bones!" bony, gaunt,...
1919] Thence-a·fter. rare. After that time; thereafter. [¶] 1593 Tell Troth’s N. Y. Gift (1876) 18 Thence after they must sit no more in the shoppes...
for the purpose of curing a murrain or preventing its spread. 1993, Our Troth, page 660: Fire - divided into need-fire (kindled by friction - discussed...
And therefore it is a good shrewd Proverb of the Spaniard, Tell a lye, and find a Troth; as if there were no way of discovery, but by Simulation. (soccer)...