totherpron.adj.

Brit.

/ˈtʌðə/, U.S.

/ˈtəðər/

Forms: α. (Middle English þet oþer), Middle English þe toþer, the tithyr, Middle English–1500s the tothir, the toder, etc. (see other v.), Middle English–1600s, 1800s the tother, 1600s–1700s the t'other, 1700s–1800s Scottish the tither. β. Middle English þat toþer, þat toiþer. γ. (without the) 1500s tothir, (dialect toore), 1500s–1600s, 1800s tother, 1600s–1800s t'other.

Etymology: Middle English þe toþer , for earlier þet oþer , þat oþer ‘the other’; formed in the same way as þe tone < þet or þat one : see tone pron. and adj. The tother is still used in Scots and in northern English dialects, but in general English is replaced by the other, and often in familiar use by the simple tother, also written t'other. Compare 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 English ‘his other hand’.

Now dialect.

I. used absolutely.

1. The other (of two): often opposed to tone (see tone pron. and adj.). to tell tother (or t'other) from which (jocular), to tell one from the other or (loosely) another; to distinguish or tell apart.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discriminate, distinguish [phrase]

to tell tother (or t'other) from whicha1325

can (or could) skillc1340

tella1425

to thread the difference1627

to cut (to) a thread (between)1647

to draw the line1766

the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > one (in antithesis to another) > the other

tothera1325

α.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 16 Þet uerste heaued of þe beste of helle ys prede, þet oþer is enuie.

a1225 Leg. Kath. 101 Ane dale ha etheold..& spende al  oðer.]

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2724 Ðis on wulde don ðe toðer wrong.

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 248 Þe toon pope falliþ þe toþurs bullis.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. vi. 3 Thei crieden the tother to the tother.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11056 Þe tan was leuedi maiden ying, þe toþer [Gött. toder] hir hand-womman kerling.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. vi. 3 Thei crieden the toon to the tother.

c1440 Anc. Cookery in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 435 Dresse up the tone with the tother.

1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. Dv^v Nother wyll we do the tone nor the tother.

a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine ii. ii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gg4/2 Fran. What's the tother? Clor. What tother? Fran. He that lyes along there.

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 7 Two small Dissertations, the one upon Noe's arrival..the t'other was about the Origin of the Druids.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 179 Brandy the tane, the tither whisky.

1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs iv, in Poems 10 The tither was a ploughman's collie.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. xii. 315 My lord cares as little about the tane as the tother.

β. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 84 And in þat toþer [Fairf. þe toþer, Trin. Cambr. þat oþer] scho lastes ever.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2032 ‘Þi fader slepand,’ said þat toiþer [Fairf. 14 þe toþer], ‘Liggus here-oute.’a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3494 His moder him luued mare þan þat toþer [Fairf., Gött., Trin. Cambr. þe toþer].γ. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1339/1 Tone gone to God,..still reigning tother.1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse i. iv Here's one, there's tother.1688 M. Prior Ode Exod. iii. 14 vi He on t'other's Ruin rears his Throne.1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 129 Securing the vogue on one side and t'other.1804 M. Edgeworth Lame Jervas i, in Pop. Tales I. 3 I saw the ghost..with the light in one hand, and a chain dragging after him in t'other.1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 259 You cannot tell one from tother.Phr.1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life (1975) III. xxii. 24 You're so much alike one can't tell t'other from which.1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 258 We've mixed the whole show up..till you can't tell t'other from which.1979 D. 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 adv.¹ 3 (Cf. German der andere.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > fact of being second > [noun] > that which is second

othereOE

tother1380

second1572

1380 Lay Folks Catech. (Lamb. MS.) 332 Þe fyrst ys syȝt of eye, þe toþer heryng of Ere.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1629 Þe first was sem, cham was the toþeir [Fairf. þe toþer], And Iaphet hight þat yonges[t] broþer.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ii. 24 Thre sones, the first hight Moyne, and the tother Pendragon, and the thirde Vter.

3. plural ( the tother obsolete, tothers rare): The others, the rest: cf. other pron. and n. 4.

ΚΠ

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 45 Þat were Maysters of alle þe toþire, Hengist he hight, & Hors his broþire.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 4948 Þan spac ruben þe eldest broder, Stille menand til þe toder.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxvii xviii. were conuycte and Hangyd, & the tother remayned longe after in Pryson.

1691 J. Wilson Belphegor v. iii When t'others shall..break themselves, on what they fall.

II. as adjective preceding a noun.

a. The other (of two). In early use often opposed to to n., tone pron. and adj. 2: see these.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > the one or the other (of two)

tone1303

tother1303

anotherc1350

α.

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 3993 Yn þe toþer worlde þer þey shul be, Þey are nat wurþy any ioye to se.

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Balade. 325 Or he haue herd the tothyr partye speke.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6305 In sirie apon þe toiþer side.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16721 Þe toþer [c1460 Laud the todir] theif him gaf ansuer.

1419 Munim. de Melros (Bannatyne Club) 502 Betwix..Dauid abbot..and hys Conuent on þe ta part and Nychole of Wedale on þe toþer part.

1465 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 320 The tothyr half to the cowrte.

1482 Monk of Evesham 71 He..brought certen worde to the todyr man that tolde me.

c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 75 On the tother syde wher as one doth such spiritual busines with a dulnes of spirite & werines.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 149 He dissaweit baith the tuddar twa.

1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar v. ii. 78 No! the t'other old Gentleman in black shall take me if I do.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 172 In requital to the t'other Prelate's Urias's Letter.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. x. 209 I heard Puggie Orrock, and the tother thief of a sheriff-officer..speaking about it.

1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 32 On the tither haun.

γ. 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 299 Wee, Britans of t'other race.1720 W. Kennett Monitions to Clergy of Peterborough i. 27 This, that, and t'other invented Order of their Church.1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. xiii. 35 How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!

†b. After a possessive: Other. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1482 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 108 Accordyng as hit specyfyeth in my toder letter.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) 5 The grit armye of enemeis valkand on ther tothir syde.

1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age ii. sig. E^v Vnlesse it were my tother selfe, I haue no hand in it.

1721 T. D'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.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > primary school

under-school1629

primer schoola1680

proseminary1774

primary school1792

dame-schoola1817

pettya1827

ma'am-school1838

elementary school1841

primary1851

prep school1862

minding-school1864

junior school1871

tother school1881

marm school1889

preparatory1904

terakoya1909

prep1924

prepper1956

1881 A. Trollope Dr. Wortle's School 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.

1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 179 ‘Where's your t'other 'un?’ a question generally addressed to new boys.

1958 Sunday 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.

†5.

a. The second (of two or more): cf. other adj. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > fact of being second > [adjective]

othereOE

afterOE

second1297

tothera1400

secondarya1425

two1586

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1627 (heading) Her bigins at noe þe lele þe toþer werld right for to del.

a1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1867) 3 The toþer artecle es þat we sall trowe.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxi. 225 The first statute was, that [etc.]... The tother Statute was, that [etc.].

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 1 The ferde is, of the first angel... The fyft, js of the tothir angel.

b. The second, another, one more. Obsolete exc. Scottish.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > the second or another

anotherc1175

tother1600

nexta1944

1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood xix. 25 He calleth: Boy, fill vs the tother quart.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 218 Then each man drink the tother cup and to bed.

1733 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (ed. 9) I. 9 The lover he ga'e her the tither kiss, Syne ran to her dady and tell'd him this.

?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 195 An' ay he gies the tozie drab The tither skelpan kiss.

6. (the) tother (day), etc.

†a. The second; the following, the next (day, etc.): cf. other adj. 3b (a). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 38 Þe toþer ȝere next of his coronment.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7619 Þe toþer morn [Gött. day] her after-ward þe warlau trauail saul fulhard.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13249 In aueril þe toþer dai.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 5993 Moyses praid þe toder day, All þe flijs wair quit a-way.

a1500 (?c1400) Sir Triamour (Cambr.) (1937) l. 508 The tother day, on the same wyse, As the kynge fro þe borde can ryse.

1539 in Abst. Protocols Town Clerks of Glasgow (1897) IV. 113 The messis to be said..the tane half..the tane day, and the remanent of thame the tuther day.

a1765 K. Estmere xxvii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 53/1 Tone day to marrye Kyng Adlands daughter, Tother daye to carrye her home.

†b. The preceding (day, etc.): cf. other adj. 3b (b). Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 908 Schir Ihone the Grayme..To the Corhed come on the tothir nycht.

c. The other (day, night, etc.); a few (days, etc.) ago: cf. other adj. 3b (c).

ΚΠ

1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iii. iv. sig. Ciiii^v Did not Tom Tankard rake his Curtal toore day standing in the stable.

1680 Sir C. Lyttelton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. (Camden) 232 Tother day, in shifting of a cabinet.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 153. ⁋1 An old Gentleman t'other Day in Discourse with a Friend.

1779 Mirror No. 12. ⁋8 I confess, I could not help being in a passion t'other day.

1863 Tyneside Songs 31 Tuther Seturday neet aw saw a grand foot race Alang at the Victoria grund.

Compounds

† tother-day adj. Obsolete (see 6c), that happened or existed a few days ago, very recent.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1662 J. Owen Animadv. Fiat Lux in Wks. (1851) XIV. 65 Do we talk of t'other-day things?

tothersider n. one from the other side; spec. of Australia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of

bushboya1834

Melbournite1838

Melburnian1838

bushman1846

Vandemonian1852

scrubber1859

Queenslander1860

Victorian1862

Sydneysider1865

Centralian1875

Waler1880

Territorian1882

mutton-bird1892

bushy1896

sand-groper1896

tothersider1896

crow-eater1899

Bananalander1900

outbacker1900

Tassie1905

groper1924

Tasmanian1934

mutton-bird eater1941

Top-Ender1941

Kanakalander1945

1896 H. 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.

1900 H. 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 vi. 222 The ancient t'other-sider [sc. Vandemonian Jack] oscillated his frame-saw.

1929 J. Raeside Golden Days 224 The population of Hannans, although mostly composed of t'othersiders, included not a small sprinkling of West Australians.

1949 Geogr. Mag. Feb. 373 Tothersider, a Western Australian.

1950 K. S. Prichard Winged Seeds 30 Unemployed from all over the country swarmin' here, t'other siders as well as W.A. blokes.

1963 X. Herbert Disturbing Elem. 2 My parents..were what were called T'othersiders, meaning people who had come to West Australia from the other side of the continent.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	tother
释义	totherpron.adj. Brit. /ˈtʌðə/, U.S. /ˈtəðər/ Forms: α. (Middle English þet oþer), Middle English þe toþer, the tithyr, Middle English–1500s the tothir, the toder, etc. (see other v.), Middle English–1600s, 1800s the tother, 1600s–1700s the t'other, 1700s–1800s Scottish the tither. β. Middle English þat toþer, þat toiþer. γ. (without the) 1500s tothir, (dialect toore), 1500s–1600s, 1800s tother, 1600s–1800s t'other. Etymology: Middle English þe toþer , for earlier þet oþer , þat oþer ‘the other’; formed in the same way as þe tone < þet or þat one : see tone pron. and adj. The tother is still used in Scots and in northern English dialects, but in general English is replaced by the other, and often in familiar use by the simple tother, also written t'other. Compare 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 English ‘his other hand’. Now dialect. I. used absolutely. 1. The other (of two): often opposed to tone (see tone pron. and adj.). to tell tother (or t'other) from which (jocular), to tell one from the other or (loosely) another; to distinguish or tell apart. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discriminate, distinguish [phrase] to tell tother (or t'other) from whicha1325 can (or could) skillc1340 tella1425 to thread the difference1627 to cut (to) a thread (between)1647 to draw the line1766 the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > one (in antithesis to another) > the other tothera1325 α. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 16 Þet uerste heaued of þe beste of helle ys prede, þet oþer is enuie. a1225 Leg. Kath. 101 Ane dale ha etheold..& spende al  oðer.] a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2724 Ðis on wulde don ðe toðer wrong. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 248 Þe toon pope falliþ þe toþurs bullis. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. vi. 3 Thei crieden the tother to the tother. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11056 Þe tan was leuedi maiden ying, þe toþer [Gött. toder] hir hand-womman kerling. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. vi. 3 Thei crieden the toon to the tother. c1440 Anc. Cookery in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 435 Dresse up the tone with the tother. 1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. Dv^v Nother wyll we do the tone nor the tother. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine ii. ii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gg4/2 Fran. What's the tother? Clor. What tother? Fran. He that lyes along there. 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 7 Two small Dissertations, the one upon Noe's arrival..the t'other was about the Origin of the Druids. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 179 Brandy the tane, the tither whisky. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs iv, in Poems 10 The tither was a ploughman's collie. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. xii. 315 My lord cares as little about the tane as the tother. β. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 84 And in þat toþer [Fairf. þe toþer, Trin. Cambr. þat oþer] scho lastes ever.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2032 ‘Þi fader slepand,’ said þat toiþer [Fairf. 14 þe toþer], ‘Liggus here-oute.’a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3494 His moder him luued mare þan þat toþer [Fairf., Gött., Trin. Cambr. þe toþer].γ. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1339/1 Tone gone to God,..still reigning tother.1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse i. iv Here's one, there's tother.1688 M. Prior Ode Exod. iii. 14 vi He on t'other's Ruin rears his Throne.1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 129 Securing the vogue on one side and t'other.1804 M. Edgeworth Lame Jervas i, in Pop. Tales I. 3 I saw the ghost..with the light in one hand, and a chain dragging after him in t'other.1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 259 You cannot tell one from tother.Phr.1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life (1975) III. xxii. 24 You're so much alike one can't tell t'other from which.1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 258 We've mixed the whole show up..till you can't tell t'other from which.1979 D. 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 adv.¹ 3 (Cf. German der andere.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > fact of being second > [noun] > that which is second othereOE tother1380 second1572 1380 Lay Folks Catech. (Lamb. MS.) 332 Þe fyrst ys syȝt of eye, þe toþer heryng of Ere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1629 Þe first was sem, cham was the toþeir [Fairf. þe toþer], And Iaphet hight þat yonges[t] broþer. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ii. 24 Thre sones, the first hight Moyne, and the tother Pendragon, and the thirde Vter. 3. plural ( the tother obsolete, tothers rare): The others, the rest: cf. other pron. and n. 4. ΚΠ c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 45 Þat were Maysters of alle þe toþire, Hengist he hight, & Hors his broþire. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 4948 Þan spac ruben þe eldest broder, Stille menand til þe toder. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxvii xviii. were conuycte and Hangyd, & the tother remayned longe after in Pryson. 1691 J. Wilson Belphegor v. iii When t'others shall..break themselves, on what they fall. II. as adjective preceding a noun. 4. a. The other (of two). In early use often opposed to to n., tone pron. and adj. 2: see these. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > the one or the other (of two) tone1303 tother1303 anotherc1350 α. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 3993 Yn þe toþer worlde þer þey shul be, Þey are nat wurþy any ioye to se. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Balade. 325 Or he haue herd the tothyr partye speke. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6305 In sirie apon þe toiþer side. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16721 Þe toþer [c1460 Laud the todir] theif him gaf ansuer. 1419 Munim. de Melros (Bannatyne Club) 502 Betwix..Dauid abbot..and hys Conuent on þe ta part and Nychole of Wedale on þe toþer part. 1465 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 320 The tothyr half to the cowrte. 1482 Monk of Evesham 71 He..brought certen worde to the todyr man that tolde me. c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 75 On the tother syde wher as one doth such spiritual busines with a dulnes of spirite & werines. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 149 He dissaweit baith the tuddar twa. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar v. ii. 78 No! the t'other old Gentleman in black shall take me if I do. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 172 In requital to the t'other Prelate's Urias's Letter. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. x. 209 I heard Puggie Orrock, and the tother thief of a sheriff-officer..speaking about it. 1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 32 On the tither haun. γ. 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 299 Wee, Britans of t'other race.1720 W. Kennett Monitions to Clergy of Peterborough i. 27 This, that, and t'other invented Order of their Church.1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. xiii. 35 How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away! †b. After a possessive: Other. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1482 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 108 Accordyng as hit specyfyeth in my toder letter. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) 5 The grit armye of enemeis valkand on ther tothir syde. 1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age ii. sig. E^v Vnlesse it were my tother selfe, I haue no hand in it. 1721 T. D'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. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > primary school under-school1629 primer schoola1680 proseminary1774 primary school1792 dame-schoola1817 pettya1827 ma'am-school1838 elementary school1841 primary1851 prep school1862 minding-school1864 junior school1871 tother school1881 marm school1889 preparatory1904 terakoya1909 prep1924 prepper1956 1881 A. Trollope Dr. Wortle's School 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. 1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 179 ‘Where's your t'other 'un?’ a question generally addressed to new boys. 1958 Sunday 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. †5. a. The second (of two or more): cf. other adj. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > fact of being second > [adjective] othereOE afterOE second1297 tothera1400 secondarya1425 two1586 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1627 (heading) Her bigins at noe þe lele þe toþer werld right for to del. a1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1867) 3 The toþer artecle es þat we sall trowe. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxi. 225 The first statute was, that [etc.]... The tother Statute was, that [etc.]. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 1 The ferde is, of the first angel... The fyft, js of the tothir angel. b. The second, another, one more. Obsolete exc. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > the second or another anotherc1175 tother1600 nexta1944 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood xix. 25 He calleth: Boy, fill vs the tother quart. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 218 Then each man drink the tother cup and to bed. View more context for this quotation 1733 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (ed. 9) I. 9 The lover he ga'e her the tither kiss, Syne ran to her dady and tell'd him this. ?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 195 An' ay he gies the tozie drab The tither skelpan kiss. 6. (the) tother (day), etc. †a. The second; the following, the next (day, etc.): cf. other adj. 3b (a). Obsolete. ΚΠ c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 38 Þe toþer ȝere next of his coronment. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7619 Þe toþer morn [Gött. day] her after-ward þe warlau trauail saul fulhard. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13249 In aueril þe toþer dai. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 5993 Moyses praid þe toder day, All þe flijs wair quit a-way. a1500 (?c1400) Sir Triamour (Cambr.) (1937) l. 508 The tother day, on the same wyse, As the kynge fro þe borde can ryse. 1539 in Abst. Protocols Town Clerks of Glasgow (1897) IV. 113 The messis to be said..the tane half..the tane day, and the remanent of thame the tuther day. a1765 K. Estmere xxvii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 53/1 Tone day to marrye Kyng Adlands daughter, Tother daye to carrye her home. †b. The preceding (day, etc.): cf. other adj. 3b (b). Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 908 Schir Ihone the Grayme..To the Corhed come on the tothir nycht. c. The other (day, night, etc.); a few (days, etc.) ago: cf. other adj. 3b (c). ΚΠ 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iii. iv. sig. Ciiii^v Did not Tom Tankard rake his Curtal toore day standing in the stable. 1680 Sir C. Lyttelton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. (Camden) 232 Tother day, in shifting of a cabinet. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 153. ⁋1 An old Gentleman t'other Day in Discourse with a Friend. 1779 Mirror No. 12. ⁋8 I confess, I could not help being in a passion t'other day. 1863 Tyneside Songs 31 Tuther Seturday neet aw saw a grand foot race Alang at the Victoria grund. Compounds † tother-day adj. Obsolete (see 6c), that happened or existed a few days ago, very recent.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1662 J. Owen Animadv. Fiat Lux in Wks. (1851) XIV. 65 Do we talk of t'other-day things? tothersider n. one from the other side; spec. of Australia. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of bushboya1834 Melbournite1838 Melburnian1838 bushman1846 Vandemonian1852 scrubber1859 Queenslander1860 Victorian1862 Sydneysider1865 Centralian1875 Waler1880 Territorian1882 mutton-bird1892 bushy1896 sand-groper1896 tothersider1896 crow-eater1899 Bananalander1900 outbacker1900 Tassie1905 groper1924 Tasmanian1934 mutton-bird eater1941 Top-Ender1941 Kanakalander1945 1896 H. 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. 1900 H. 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 vi. 222 The ancient t'other-sider [sc. Vandemonian Jack] oscillated his frame-saw. 1929 J. Raeside Golden Days 224 The population of Hannans, although mostly composed of t'othersiders, included not a small sprinkling of West Australians. 1949 Geogr. Mag. Feb. 373 Tothersider, a Western Australian. 1950 K. S. Prichard Winged Seeds 30 Unemployed from all over the country swarmin' here, t'other siders as well as W.A. blokes. 1963 X. Herbert Disturbing Elem. 2 My parents..were what were called T'othersiders, meaning people who had come to West Australia from the other side of the continent. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < pron.adj.1303
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