twoth

Second.

Adjective

  1. Second.
    • The colonel would then shout, "Twoty-twoth, form quarter distance column on the grenadier company." - 1872, “Reminiscences of the Army”, in The Cape monthly magazine, volume 5, page 302:
    • In Dev. twoth is used for second, as the twenty-twoth of April. - 1905, Joseph Wright, The English dialect grammar, page 269:
    • The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided. - 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry, Reprint edition...

Origin

From two + -th (ordinal suffix). Compare West Frisian twadde (“second”), Dutch tweede (“second”), German zweite (“second”).