Trusty vs Trysted - What's the difference?
trusty | trysted |
Reliable or trustworthy.
A trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.
* 1941 , James Howell Street, In my father's house
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 58:
*:The cell block is clean and doesn't smell of disinfectant. The trusties do all the work. The supply of trusties is always ample.
(tryst)
A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
* Tennyson
* 2004 , , The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life , page 11
* 2005 , , The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments , ?91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ISBN 1862078556, 9781862078550)
(obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
As an adjective trusty
is reliable or trustworthy.As a noun trusty
is a trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.As a verb trysted is
(tryst).trusty
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(er)Noun
(trusties)- We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free.
trysted
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(head)tryst
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Noun
(en noun)- The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.
- But, for the most part, we shall mark our progress to the dawn of life by the measure of those 40 natural milestones, the trysts that enrich our pilgrimage.
- If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst , then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?