sure-e|nough

sure-e|nough
sure-e|nough «SHUR ih NUHF», adjective.
U.S. Informal. genuine; real: »

It was at once agreed that he “wasn't the sure-enough bronco-buster he thought himself” (Theodore Roosevelt).


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