twixt

See also: 'twixt

English

Alternative forms

• 'twixt

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twɪkst/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkst

Preposition

twixt

1. (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.

   • 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

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

See also

• there's many a slip twixt cup and lip