twixt

• 'twixt

From Middle English twyx +‎ -t (excrescent ending).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /twɪkst/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkst

twixt

1. (literary) betwixt, between
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, “The Eleventh Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 172:

     O! thou thrice happy Shire, confined so to bee / Twixt two so famous Floods, as Mersey is, and Dee.

   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     I then took a strait That gave myself, and some few more, receipt 'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • c. 1700, John Pomfret, Upon the Divine Attributes:

     From all the dangers he foresees or fears; Yet every hour 'twixt Scylla and Charybdis steers.

   • 1893, W. B. Yeats, “The Hosting of the Sidhe”:

     The host is rushing 'twixt night and day,
     Caoilte tossing his burning hair,
     And Niamh calling Away, come away.

• betwixt
• there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
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