twixt
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From Middle English twyx + -t (excrescent ending).
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twixt
- (literary) betwixt, between
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 11 p. 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:
- I then took a strait That gave myself, and some few more, receipt 'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis.
- c. 1700, John Pomfret, Upon the Divine Attributes:
- From all the dangers he foresees or fears; Yet every hour 'twixt Scylla and Charybdis steers.
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