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akether

akether verb: quoth he.

Verb

akether

  1. (Devon, UK, West-Country, obsolete) quoth he.
    • "Us wur betwitting Bob to-day,
      Vor gieing all es things away,
      Begummers, us wur cort,
      Akether, 'bin ma kit's ago,
      I can't work w'e'r I wull or no,
      I'll maunch an' drink vor nort.'1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: a dramatic poem in the dialect of North Devon, page 20
    • Then she walked away, not even stopping to listen to the servant's fearless denunciation of her as "a chittering, raving, rixy, louching, haggaging moil, an nor a bent th' worserer nar hot sh' art ter be, th' wapper-eed deave-nort. Giggling akether!" shrieked the old woman, wild with resentment […]1876, Oliver Madox Brown, chapter 1, in The Dwale Bluth, volume 1, pages 57–58

Forms of akether

alternative formaketha

Origin of akether

Possibly from the phrase “ah,” quoth he. First appears in the 1867 work Jim an' Nell.

Questions about akether

What does akether mean?
Akether means quoth he.
What part of speech is akether?
Akether is a verb.

Words near akether in the dictionary

  1. akers
  2. Akershus
  3. akes
  4. Akesu
  5. Aketao
  6. akether
  7. aketon
  8. aketons
  9. Akeu
  10. Akey
  11. Akeys

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