twixt

See also: 'twixt

English

Alternative forms

'twixt

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /twɪkst/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪkst

Preposition

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; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (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.

Derived terms

See also

there's many a slip twixt cup and lip

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