English

Alternative forms

• between times

Adverb

betweentimes ‎(not comparable)

1. In an interim period; meanwhile.
   • 1905, Ruth McEnery Stuart, "The Romance of Chinkapin Castle" in The Second Wooing of Salina Sue & Other Stories (1969 Garrett Press reprint), p. 192 (Google preview):

     But the infant . . . impartially offered the great green cucumber pickle with which he regaled his "teething appetite," and with which, betweentimes, he combed his mother's head and wiped the dusty outside of the coach.

   • 1996, Robert Gannon, Hellions of the Deep, page 34:

     The wharf now is a marina, the torpedo storage sheds, a dining pavilion. Betweentimes the building served as a governmental warehouse, holding everything from Nuremberg war trial records to dinosaur bones.

   • 2014 Oct 11, Michael Fallow, "Shock and awwwww at deformities," Southland Times (New Zealand) (retrieved 1 Nov 2015):

     [H]e created his second set of headlines. One for coming into the world, another for leaving it. The public reaction, betweentimes, had been interesting.

   • 2015 May 26, Eliza Berman, "See Photos of Peggy Lee as a Rising Star in the 1940s," Time (retrieved 1 Nov 2015):

     “Betweentimes Miss Lee sees as much as she possibly can of her 4-year-old daughter Nicki.”