hearty

Etymology

Equivalent to heart + -y.

adj

1. Warm and cordial towards another person.
   a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
   We, full of hearty tears / For our good father's loss c. 1603, John Marston, The Malcontent, act IV, scene I
   […] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
2. Energetic, active or eager.
   a hearty appetite
3. Cheerful, vivacious.
   a hearty fellow
4. Exhibiting strength; firm
   a hearty handshake; a hearty timber
5. Promoting strength; nourishing.
   hearty food
   I launched out in search of a vegetarian restaurant. […] I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart. Before I entered I noticed books for sale exhibited under a glass window near the door. I saw among them Salt's Plea for Vegetarianism. This I purchased for a shilling and went straight to the dining room. This was my first hearty meal since my arrival in England. 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv

noun

1. (obsolete or humorous, nautical) a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
   “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.” 1849, Herman Melville, chapter VI, in Redburn. His First Voyage