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twoth

twoth adjective: second.

Adjective

twoth (not comparable)

  1. (now dialectal or whimsical) Second.
    • 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
    • In Dev. twoth is used for second, as the twenty-twoth of April.1905, Joseph Wright, The English dialect grammar, page 269

Examples of twoth in a sentence

  • I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth.1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009:
  • 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:

Origin of twoth

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

Words that rhyme with twoth

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Questions about twoth

What does twoth mean?
Twoth means second.
How do you use twoth in a sentence?
I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth.
What part of speech is twoth?
Twoth is an adjective.

Words near twoth in the dictionary

  1. twospeed Europe
  2. twot
  3. twote
  4. twoteen
  5. twoten
  6. twoth
  7. twothirds
  8. twotino
  9. twotinos
  10. twoty
  11. twovel

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