twixt
See also: 'twixt
English
Alternative forms
- 'twixt
Etymology
From Middle English twyx + -t (excrescent ending).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twɪkst/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪkst
Preposition
twixt
- (literary) betwixt, between
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 11 p. 172:
- O! thou thrice happy Shire, confined so to bee
- Twixt two so famous Floods, as Mersey is, and Dee.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, OCLC 1002865976; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, OCLC 987451380:
- I then took a strait That gave myself, and some few more, receipt 'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis.
- c. 1700, John Pomfret, Upon the Divine Attributes
- From all the dangers he foresees or fears; Yet every hour 'twixt Scylla and Charybdis steers.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 11 p. 172:
Derived terms
- betwixt
- Twixtmas
See also
- there's many a slip twixt cup and lip