Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. nonstandard second, in ordinal numbers higher than "twentieth"
Etymologies
- From two + -th. Compare Dutch tweede ("second"), German zweite ("second"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“US columnist Larry Levy has a piece on two-player games headed The twoth, the whole twoth, and nothing but the twoth.”
“This is twoth in the sense of 'second', rhyming with tooth; not the combination of twee and Goth, rhyming with moth.”
“I don't think this use of twoth is especially frequent, but it exists.”
“We find such expressions as 'the twoth-complement number'.”
“You note that twoth is used in mathematics and computing, and you mention the terms nth and zeroth.”
“I've just done a quick search and found chapter the twoth, the twoth of July, part the twoth, and many more, as well as quite a wide range of jocular expressions relying upon it.”
“I wonder whether adding the -th comes more easily to scientists/technicians, as in 'a thirty-twoth of an inch'?”
“I can recall playing with this word as a child, and saying such things as twenty-oneth and twenty-twoth.”
“A correspondent writes to say she heard someone say 'a thirty-twoth of an inch' rather than the expected 'thirty-second', and wonders whether I know this usage, as it's the first time she's encountered it.”
“I've sewed the hundred and twoth," Rebecca Mary whispered.”
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