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betwixt

bet·wixt

UK/bɪˈtwɪkst/ US/bəˈtwɪkst/ rare archaic literary

adverb

1.

in the interval

  • “dancing all the dances with little rest between”
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Origin

From Middle English bitwixe, from Old English betweox, from Proto-Germanic *twiskaz (“twofold, double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“twice, doubly; in two”). By surface analysis, be- (“by, near, around”) + twixt (“between”). Compare Saterland Frisian twiske (“between”), Dutch tussen, German zwischen.

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