tother
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of tother
1175–1225; Middle English the tother for thet other, variant of that other the other; see that, other
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“I suspected it, lad; an’ that it wor the tother Mary as wanted something, or you wanted something wi’ her.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne
But I hadn't seen the old man for a long time ontel I called on him tother day.
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba
People seemed to be runnin first one way an then tother, askin what they should do.
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba
I suspected it, lad; an' that it wor the tother Mary as wanted something, or you wanted something wi' her.
From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne
Only one voice was heard—that of Hickman: “Now Jim, you sight Spence—gie tother to me.”
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
