Hearts vs Hearty - What's the difference?
hearts | hearty |
(uncountable) One of the four suits of playing cards, in red, marked with the symbol .
(card games, uncountable) A trick-taking card game in which players are penalized for taking hearts and (especially) the queen of spades.
(heart)
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}} Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak.
Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant.
a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
* 1849 , (Herman Melville), Chapter VI
*:“Ay, ay,” muttered the chief mate, as they rolled out of then-boats and swaggered on deck, “it’s your turn now, but it will be mine before long. Yaw about while you may, my hearties , I’ll do the yawing after the anchor’s up.”
As nouns the difference between hearts and hearty
is that hearts is plural of lang=en while hearty is a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.As a verb hearts
is third-person singular of heart.As an adjective hearty is
pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager.hearts
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(Webster 1913)Adjective
(er)- Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss.
citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}