twoth
English
Etymology
From two + -th. Compare West Frisian twadde (“second”), Dutch tweede (“second”), German zweite (“second”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːθ
Adjective
twoth (not comparable)
- (dialectal) second
- 1872, “Reminiscences of the Army”, in The Cape monthly magazine, volume 5, page 302:
- The colonel would then shout, "Twoty-twoth, form quarter distance column on the grenadier company."
- 1905, Joseph Wright, The English dialect grammar, page 269:
- In Dev. twoth is used for second, as the twenty-twoth of April.
- 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry (Fiction), Reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2009:
- The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided.
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