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ˈthrough ˌother, ˈthrough-other, advb. phr. and a. Chiefly Sc.
Also 6 throuch(e vther, 7 thorough other, 8–9 throw ither, throwither, thro'ither; throwther, throu'ther, 9 throuther; also 7 through others, 9 throughther, through-others.
[f. through prep. + other B. 8: i.e. ‘through each other’. Cf. Ger. durcheinander.]
1. advb. phr. (Mingled) through each other or one another; promiscuously; indiscriminately; in disorder.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. (S.T.S.) II. 301 Captiues war numberit al throuch vther [L. plus minus] a thousand. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 85 Figges, Orenges, Lemmons,..growing all through other. 1637Monro Exped. i. 11 Having beene divers times Pell mel through others. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 317 Hope and love, woven through other. a1653Binning Heart Humil. xviii. Wks. (1735) 622/1 Sin and Judgment mixed in thorow other. 1768Ross Helenore ii. 80 When she saw things had taken sick a cast, An' sae thro' ither warpl'd were. 1786Burns Earnest Cry & Prayer Postscr. iii, Till skelp—a shot—they're aff, a' throwther, To save their skin. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xvi, They were a' speaking and gabbling through other.
2. a. In predicative use: Mingled or mixed up; in a medley; in confusion, in disorder. (In quot. 1630, Mixed up intimately.)
1630Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 52 O sweet communion, when Christ and we are through other and are no longer two! 1855Ruskin Let. in Collingwood Life (ed. 5) 159 With all the pages through-other and backside foremost. 1865Church Times 25 Nov., Everything..is opened and dragged out, shirts and books,..clothes and letters, all topsy⁓turvy, and (to use that most expressive Scotch adjective) ‘through-other’. 1894Hall Caine Manxman v. i, A face..like a ghose's, and his hair all through-others. a1889G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 97 For earth her being has unbound; her dapple is at an end, astray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs.
b. adj. (in attrib. use). Confused, disorderly.
1720Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 492 About half an hour after I despatched mine to you,..my rude and through-other draught.
3. Of persons or their attributes (pred. or attrib.): Disorderly; wild, reckless; disordered.
1813Picken Poems I. 62 (Jam.) Weel, tho' he was so sadly throu'ther, Since than he ne'er leuk'd o'er his shouther. 1853Whistle-Binkie Ser. ii. 10 He was idle and thro'ither, and drucken an' a'. 1863J. Brown Horæ Subs. (1882) 320 Leading a wild throughother life. 1880Jamieson's Dict. s.v. Through-ither, Also used as an adj., implying rash, reckless, rattling; as, ‘She's a wild, throwither lassie’, Clydes[dale]. Mod. (Sc., Roxb.) She was a very willing servant, but oh, so throwother! no sense o' order. |