Twoth
Origin
From two + -th#Etymology_2. Compare Dutch tweede ("second"), German zweite ("second").
Full definition of twoth
Adjective
twoth
- (nonstandard) second, in ordinal numbers higher than "twentieth"
- 1872, , Reminiscences of the Army, The colonel would then shout, "Twoty-twoth, form quarter distance column on the grenadier company."
- 1905, Joseph Wright , The English dialect grammar, In Dev. twoth is used for second, as the twenty-twoth of April.
- 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Rebecca Marry Chapter The Hundred and Oneth, 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.
- 1995, , Christian Lükemeyer, An Optimized Coefficient Update Processor for High-Throughput Adaptive Equalizers, The computation of êk*xk-j is reduced to a controlled twoth complementer at the expense of a reduced adaptation speed.
- 2009, Alan Black, Steel Walls and Dirt Drops Chapter , Donnellson snorted to himself thinking of the las Third Level Commander that the old ninty-twoth had endured.