betwixt

Jul. 6th, 2007 07:26 am
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betwixt - adv. and prep., (chiefly south Midland and southern U.S.) in the space which separates, between.


Often heard in the phrase "betwixt and between," which is not so much a distinction as intensification -- meaning neither here nor there in a dilemma sense. More or less the same origin as between, but with a different case ending plus an extra -t.

---L.

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