Betwixt

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /bɪˈtwɪkst/
• Rhymes: -ɪkst

Alternative forms

• betwyxt obsolete

Origin

From Old English betwēox.

Full definition of betwixt

Preposition

1. (literary or archaic) Between, specifically between two objects.
• ShakespeareThere was some speech of marriage
  Betwixt myself and her.
• 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 3When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.

Derived terms

• betwixt and between
• 'twixt, twixt