The Collaborative International Dictionary
T'other \T'oth"er\ A colloquial contraction of the other, and formerly a contraction for that other. See the Note under That, 2.
The tothir that was crucifield with him.
--Wyclif(John
xix. 32)
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pron. (alternative form of tother English)
Usage examples of "t'other".
Well, arter gropin' about awhile, at last I got hold of the string and lifted the latch and walked in, and there sot old Marm Blake, close into one corner of the chimbley fireplace, a-see-sawin' in a rockin' chair, and a half grown black house-help, half asleep in t'other corner, a-scroudgin' up over the embers.
You send 'er the ten bob a week wivaht syin' anyfink, an' she'll fink it comes from Gawd or the Gover'ment yer cawn't tell one from t'other in Befnal Green.
Business first, pleasure arterwards, as King Richard the Third said when he stabbed the t'other king in the Tower, afore he smothered the babbies.
He had somethin' in his hands - maybe a bowl or somethin', I couldnae see - an' he held it out to t'other man.
But fitin is mis'ble bisniss, gen'rally speakin, and whenever any enterprisin countryman of mine cums over here to scoop up a Briton in the prize ring I'm allus excessively tickled when he gets scooped hisself, which it is a sad fack has thus far been the case--my only sorrer bein' that t'other feller wasn't scooped likewise.
I had a week at most at my disposal, so for three or four nights I set off stealthily after dark, dressed in an ancient pea jacket and patched unmentionables, with a muffler and billycock hat and cracked boots, Galand in one pocket and flask in t'other, skulking round Conduit Street to see what his movements were.
Now it's t'other way round, with eminent writers crying shame, and saying nothing justified such terrible retribution as Neill took, and we were far guiltier than the niggers had been.
If I was to die, and it was lost, or stole, or elseways made away with, and it was never know'd by him but what I'd took it, I believe the t'other wureld wouldn't hold me!
Or, if they flop, their floppings goes in favour of more patients, and how can you rightly have one without the t'other?
I wish to geeminy she'd stick to one or t'other -- I can't keep the run of 'em.
And since he did, and I'll lay odds that you, dear reader, know no more about Big Bulgaria and t'other thing than I did, I'll set it out as briefly as can be.
She kept him happy, I had my ration of her, and for the rest, Blowitz's arrangements went like clockwork: there he was every day, browsing at the Kaiserhof while I lunched at t'other side of the room, never a glance between us, and each picking up the other's tile when we left.
Between them, Hardinge and Gough came damned near to making a hash of it, one by his old-wife caution, t'other by his Donnybrook recklessness.
After he'd filed down the end of a brass rod, he had drawed hisself near three foot of wire on my ol' setup, wrappted two, three inches of it rount a iron spike he'd done hammered in his pole, then he got on one crank and he got Dan Smith on t'other one and fore you could say 'pee-rurkey,' theyed done drawed thet whole, dang rod into the purtiest piecet of wire you ever set eyes to.
We looked in at a fandango, one of the famous public dances held in the sala, or ballroom, at one side of the Plaza-it was simply a great hall, bare as a riding school, with benches against either wall, one side for men, t'other for women, and a dais at one end for the musicians, a demented group of grinning greasers who thrashed away on bandolins, guitars, tambourines and drums.