twoth
adjEtymology From two + -th (ordinal suffix). Compare West Frisian twadde (“second”), Dutch tweede (“second”), German zweite (“second”).
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Second.
Now dialectal or whimsical
- 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:
2 more examples
- 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:
- 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: