tother pronoun & adjective. ['tʌðǝ] Now chiefly dial. & joc. Also t'other. ME.
[from misdivision of neut. of THE (Old English Þæt) + OTHER adjective, pronoun, noun. Cf. TONE pronoun & adjective.]
A. pronoun.
1. The other one. ME.
tell tother from which tell one from the other.

2. The second one (of two or more). Only in ME.

3. sing. & (rare) in pl. The others, the rest. ME-L17.
b. attrib. adjective.
1. a. The other. ME.
tother day, the tother day, tother year, the tother year, etc. (a) the following day, year, etc.; (b) the preceding day, year, etc.; (c) the other day etc., a few days etc. ago. tother school, tother 'un School slang a preparatory school, a school one attended before public school.
b. After a possess.: other. L15-E18.

2. a. The second (of two or more). Only in ME.
b. Additional, another, one more. obsolete exc. Scot. E17.
■ I. Walton Each man drink the tother cup and to bed.

Comb.:
tothersider (chiefly Austral.) a person from the other side, esp. an eastern state.

► Esp. in Sc. & north. use also the tother.

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