twoth

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːθ
• Homophone: tooth

Adjective

twoth (not comparable)

1. (dialectal or whimsical) 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^[1], Reprint edition (Fiction), 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.

   • 2009, Alan Black, Steel Walls and Dirt Drops‎^[2] (SciFi), Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 13:

     Donnellson snorted to himself thinking of the las Third Level Commander that the old ninty-twoth had endured.

Anagrams

• thowt, whott