true-blue

1. 1.

   marked by unswerving loyalty

   “a true-blue American”

   “a reliable true-blue country club conservative”

   Similarloyal

Questions about true-blue

What does true-blue mean?

true-blue means "marked by unswerving loyalty".

How many syllables are in true-blue?

true-blue has 2 syllables and divides as true--blue under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is true-blue a common word?

true-blue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.