tother

or t'oth·er

[tuhth -er]

adjective, pronoun Older Use.

that other; the other.

Origin of tother

1175–1225; Middle English the tother for thet other, variant of that other the other; see that, other

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Examples from the Web for tother

Historical Examples of tother

I took in a cat for company 'tother day, but the critter's run away.
Cy Whittaker's Place
Joseph C. Lincoln
I read in the papers 'tother day that America needed every man.
The Portygee
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
While he drank, tother returnd, With all my Heart; and pledgd him.
The Works of Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
"How happy could I be with either, were 'tother dear charmer away," laughed Dick.
Bert Wilson on the Gridiron
J. W. Duffield
In case he delays a while longer, we sends him tother thumb.
Frank Merriwell's Triumph
Burt L. Standish

British Dictionary definitions for tother

tother

t'other

adjective, noun

archaic, or dialect the other

Word Origin for tother

C13 the tother, by mistaken division from thet other (thet, from Old English thæt, neuter of the 1)

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Word Origin and History for tother

"the other," early 13c., þe toþer, from faulty separation of þet oþer "that other;" simple use of tother in place of the other is attested by 1580s.