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tother, pron. and a. Now dial.|ˈtʌðə(r)|
Forms: α. (3 þet oþer), 3–5 þe toþer, 4–6 the tothir, the toder, etc. (see other), 4–7, 9 the tother, 7–8 the t'other, 8–9 Sc. the tither. β. 4 þat toþer, þat toiþer. γ. (without the) 6 tothir, (dial. toore), 6–7, 9 tother, 7–9 t'other.
[ME. þe toþer, for earlier þet oþer, þat oþer ‘the other’; formed in the same way as þe tone from þet or þat one: see tone pron. and a. The tother is still used in Sc. and in north. Eng. dialects, but in general Eng. is replaced by the other, and often in familiar use by the simple tother, also written t'other. Cf. the similar use of tone, t'one. When a possessive pronoun or case took the place of the, tother remained, e.g. his tother hand, in literary Eng. ‘his other hand’.]
A. pron., or adj. used absolutely.
1. The other (of two): often opposed to tone (see tone pron.). Phr. to tell tother (or t'other) from which (joc.), to tell one from the other or (loosely) another; to distinguish or tell apart.
α [a1225Leg. Kath. 101 Ane dale ha etheold..& spende al þ̶ oðer. 1340Ayenb. 16 Þet uerste heaued of þe beste of helle ys prede, þet oþer is enuie.] c1250Gen. & Ex. 2724 Ðis on wulde don ðe toðer wrong. a1300Cursor M. 11056 Þe tan was leuedi maiden ying, Þe toþer [Gött. toder] hir hand-womman kerling. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 248 Þe toon pope falliþ þe toþurs bullis. 1382― Isa. vi. 3 Thei crieden the tother to the tother. 1388Ibid., Thei crieden the toon to the tother. c1440Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 435 Dresse up the tone with the tother. 1533J. Heywood Play Wether (1903) 1200 Nother wyll we do the tone nor the tother. 1613Fletcher, etc. Captain ii. ii, Fran. What's the tother? Clor. What tother? Fran. He that lyes along there. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 7 Two small Dissertations, the one upon Noe's arrival..the t'other was about the Origin of the Druids. a1774Fergusson Drink Ecl. Poems (1845) 49 Brandy the tane, the tither whiskey. 1816Scott Antiq. xxvii, My lord cares as little about the tane as the tother.
β13..Cursor M. 84 (Cott.) And in þat toþer [v.rr. þe toþer, þat oþer] scho lastes ever. Ibid. 2032 ‘Þi fader slepand’, said þat toiþer [other MSS. þe toþer], ‘Liggus here-oute’. Ibid. 3494 His moder him luued mare þan þat toþer [other MSS. þe toþer].
γ1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1339/1 Tone gone to God,..still reigning tother. 1632Brome North. Lasse i. iv, Here's one, there's tother. 1688Prior On Exod. III vi, He on t'other's Ruin rears his Throne. 1710Palmer Proverbs 129 Securing the vogue on one side and t'other. 1800M. Edgeworth Lame Jervas i, I saw the ghost..with the light in one hand, and a chain dragging after him in t'other. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 259 You cannot tell one from tother.
Phr.1874M. Clarke His Natural Life (1975) III. xxii. 24 You're so much alike one can't tell t'other from which. 1904Kipling Traffics & Discov. 258 We've mixed the whole show up..till you can't tell t'other from which. 1979D. Francis Whip Hand ii. 27 He calls them all Tommy, because he doesn't know tother from which.
†2. The second (of two or more): cf. other B. 3. (Cf. Ger. der andere.) Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 1629 (Cott.) Þe first was sem, cham was the toþeir [other MSS. þe toþer], And Iaphet hight þat yongest broþer. 1380Lay Folks Catech. 332 (Lamb. MS.) Þe fyrst ys syȝt of eye, þe toþer heryng of Ere. c1450Merlin ii. 24 Thre sones, the first hight Moyne, and the tother Pendragon, and the thirde Vter.
3. pl. (the tother obs., tothers rare): The others, the rest: cf. other B. 4.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 45 Þat were Maysters of alle þe toþire, Hengist he hight, & Hors his broþire. 13..Cursor M. 4948 (Gött.) Þan spac ruben þe eldest broder Stille menand til þe toder. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 339, xviii. were conuycte and hangyd, & the tother remayned longe after in pryson. 1691J. Wilson Belphegor v. iii, When t'others shall..break themselves, on what they fall.
B. as adj. preceding a n.
1. a. The other (of two). In early use often opposed to to, tone a.: see these.
αa1300Cursor M. 6305 (Cott.) In sirie apon þe toiþer side. Ibid. 16721 Þe toþer [Laud MS. the todir] theif him gaf ansuer. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3993 Yn þe toþer worlde þer þey shul be, Þey are nat wurþy any ioye to se. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 325 (Balade) Or he haue herd the tothyr partye speke. 1419Munim. de Melros (Bann. Cl.) 502 Betwix..Dauid abbot..and hys Conuent on þe ta part and Nychole of Wedale on þe toþer part. 1465Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 320 The tothyr half to the cowrte. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 71 He..brought certen worde to the todyr man that tolde me. 1522More De Quat. Noviss. Wks. 75/1 On the tother syde wher as one doth such spiritual busines with a dulnes of spirite & werines. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 149 He dissaweit baith the tuddar twa. 1681Dryden Span. Friar v. ii, No! the t'other old gentleman in black shall take me if I do. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 172 In requital to the t'other Prelate's Urias's Letter. 1816Scott Antiq. xxxix, I heard Puggie Orrock, and the tother thief of a sheriff-officer..speaking about it.
γ1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 299 Wee, Britans of t'other race. 1720White Monit. Clergy Peterbo. i. 27 This, that, and t'other invented Order of their Church. 1727Gay Begg. Op. ii. xiii, How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
†b. After a possessive: Other. Obs.
1482Cely Papers (Camden) 108 Accordyng as hit specyfyeth in my toder letter. 1549Compl. Scot. 6 The grit armye of enemeis valkand on ther tothir syde. 1613Heywood Silver Age ii. i. Wks. 1874 III. 113 Vnlesse it were my tother selfe, I haue no hand in it. 1721D'Urfey Two Queens Brentford v. i, Now you shall have my t'other Walk.
c. tother school, tother 'un (Public School slang), a preparatory school, a school one attended before one's public school.
1880Trollope Dr. Wortle's School (1881) I. ii. 34 The old prescribed form of education..must be followed,—a t'other school, namely, then Eton... Therefore Bowick was chosen as the t'other school. 1940M. Marples Public School Slang 179 ‘Where's your t'other 'un?’ a question generally addressed to new boys. 1958Sunday Times 25 May 8/3 Mr. Kenward's totherun (if the reviewer may be permitted to adopt, for the moment, his own public-school terminology) is named Ripple.
†2.
a. The second (of two or more): cf. other A. 3. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 1627 heading (Cott.) Her bigins at noe þe lede Þe toþer werld right for to del. c1400Mandeville (1839) xxi. 225 The first statute was, that [etc.]... The tother Statute was, that [etc.]. a1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1867) 3 The toþer artecle es þat we sall trowe. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 2 The ferde is of the first angel... The fyft is of the tothir angel.
b. The second, another, one more. Obs. exc. Sc.
1600Rowlands Lett. Humours Blood xix. 25 He calleth: Boy, fill vs the tother quart. 1653Walton Angler xi. 218 Then each man drink the tother cup and to bed. 1733Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (ed. 9) I. 9 The lover he ga'e her the tither kiss, Syne ran to her dady and tell'd him this. 1785Burns Jolly Beggars ii, And aye he gies the tozie drab The tither skelpin' kiss.
3. (the) tother (day, etc.).
†a. The second; the following, the next (day, etc.): cf. other A. 3 b (a). Obs.
†b. The preceding (day, etc.): cf. other A. 3 b (b). Obs.
c. The other (day, night, etc.); a few (days, etc.) ago: cf. other A. 3 b (c).
a.a1300Cursor M. 7619 (Cott.) Þe toþer morn [Gött. day] her after-ward Þe warlau trauail saul ful hard. Ibid. 13249 In aueril þe toþer dai. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 38 Þe toþer ȝere next of his coronment. 13..Cursor M. 5993 (Gött.) Moyses praid þe toder day, All þe flijs wair quit a-way. c1430Syr Tryam. 508 The tother day, on the same wyse, As the kynge fro the borde can ryse. a1765K. Estmere xxvii. in Child Ballads iii. (1885) 53/1 Tone day to marrye Kyng Adlands daughter, Tother daye to carrye her home.
b.c1470Henry Wallace v. 908 Schir Jhone the Grayme,..To the Corhed come on the tothir nycht.
c.1575Gamm. Gurton iii. iv, Did not Tom Tankard rake his Curtal toore day standing in the stable? 1680Sir C. Lyttelton in Hatton Corr. (Camden) 232 Tother day, in shifting of a cabinet. 1711Steele Spect. No. 153 ⁋1 An old Gentleman t'other Day in Discourse with a Friend. 1779Mirror No. 12 ⁋8, I confess, I could not help being in a passion t'other day. 1863Tyneside Songs 31 Tuther Seturday neet aw saw a grand foot race Alang at the Victoria grund.
C. Comb.: tother-day a. nonce-wd. (see B. 3 c), that happened or existed a few days ago, very recent; ˈtotherˌsider, one from the other side; spec. of Australia.
1662Owen Animadv. Fiat Lux Wks. 1851 XIV. 65 Do we talk of t'other-day things? 1896H. Lawson Let. 3 Sept. (1970) 62 W.A. is a fraud... The old Sand-gropers are the best to work for or having dealings with. The Tothersiders are cutting each other's throats. 1900H. Lawson Over Sliprails 72 We were all T'othersiders, and old mates, and we worked things together. It was in Westralia—the Land of T'othersiders. 1903‘T. Collins’ Such is Life (1944) 276 The ancient t'other-sider [sc. Vandemonian Jack] oscillated his frame-saw. 1929J. Raeside Golden Days 224 The population of Hannans, although mostly composed of t'othersiders, included not a small sprinkling of West Australians. 1949Geographical Mag. Feb. 373 Tothersider, a Western Australian. 1950K. S. Prichard Winged Seeds 30 Unemployed from all over the country swarmin' here, t'other siders as well as W.A. blokes. 1963X. Herbert Disturbing Element 2 My parents..were what were called T'othersiders, meaning people who had come to West Australia from the other side of the continent. |