English

Adjective

twoth ‎(not comparable)

1. (nonstandard) second
   • 1872, “Reminiscences of the Army”, in The Cape monthly magazine, volume 5, page 302:

     The colonel would then shout, "Twoty-twoth, form quarter distance column on the grenadier company."

   • 1905, Joseph Wright, The English dialect grammar, page 269:

     In Dev. twoth is used for second, as the twenty-twoth of April.

   • 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry (Fiction), Reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2009:

     The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided.

   • 1995, Christian Lükemeyer; Tobias G. Noll, “An Optimized Coefficient Update Processor for High-Throughput Adaptive Equalizers”, in CiteSeerX, Penn. State University, page PDF 2:

     The computation of êk*xk-j is reduced to a controlled twoth complementer at the expense of a reduced adaptation speed.

   • 2009, Alan Black, Steel Walls and Dirt Drops (SciFi), Trafford Publishing, ISBN 9781426914836, page 13:

     Donnellson snorted to himself thinking of the las Third Level Commander that the old ninty-twoth had endured.

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