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twoth en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From two + -th (ordinal suffix). Compare West Frisian twadde (“second”), Dutch tweede (“second”), German zweite (“second”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, qualifier:now dialectal or whimsical) Second.
    • In Dev. twoth is used for second, as the twenty-twoth of April. 1905, Joseph Wright, The English dialect grammar, page 269:
    • 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. 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009:
    • The colonel would then shout, "Twoty-twoth, form quarter distance column on the grenadier company." 1872, “Reminiscences of the Army”, in The Cape monthly magazine, volume 5, page 302:
    • Donnellson snorted to himself thinking of the las Third Level Commander that the old ninty-twoth had endured. 2009, Alan Black, Steel Walls and Dirt Drops (SciFi), Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 13: