nother

[nuhth -er]

adjective

Informal. a whole nother, an entirely different; a whole other.

Origin of nother

1955–60; metanalysis of an other or another

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Examples from the Web for nother

Contemporary Examples of nother

As a(nother) sidelight, it's clear that Romney or whoever wrote this piece doesn't actually understand what culture even is.
Romney and Culture: Flip-Flop-Flip!
Michael Tomasky
August 1, 2012

Historical Examples of nother

Somehow or 'nother, the story's got round about your findin' that pin yesterday.
The Green Satin Gown
Laura E. Richards
Well, I think, Mr. Saunders, they isn't alike as much as they might be 'nother.
Homeward Bound
James Fenimore Cooper
The fact is, the widder had learned, somehow or 'nother, that he had the most money of the two.
Cape Cod Stories
Joseph C. Lincoln
Four or fyue dayes after, they were bothe bydde to dyner in a nother place.
Shakespeare Jest-Books;
Unknown
She's dead, and him and the boy get along together somehow or 'nother.
An Arrow in a Sunbeam
Various

Word Origin and History for nother

word formed from misdivision of another as a nother (see N for other examples), c.1300. From 14c.-16c. no nother is sometimes encountered as a misdivision of none other or perhaps as an emphatic negative; Old English had noðer as a contraction of ne oðer "no other."