akether

quoth he.

Verb

  1. quoth he.
    • "Us wur betwitting Bob to-day, Vor gieing all es things away, Begummers, us wur cort, Akether, 'bin ma kit's ago, I can't work w'e'r I wull or no, I'll maunch an' drink vor nort.' - 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and...
    • Then she walked away, not even stopping to listen to the servant's fearless denunciation of her as "a chittering, raving, rixy, louching, haggaging moil, an nor a bent th' worserer nar hot sh' art ter be, th' wapper-eed...

Origin

Possibly from the phrase “ah,” quoth he. First appears in the 1867 work Jim an' Nell.

Forms

aketha