word of the day :: betwixt

betwixt:

[bih-twikst]

–preposition, adverb

1. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. between.

-Idiom

2. betwixt and between, neither the one or the other; in a middle or unresolved position: Not wanting to side with either her father or mother she was betwixt and between.

Origin:

bef. 950; ME betwix, OE betwix, betweox, equiv. to be- be- + tweox, c. OHG zwiski two each; akin to G zwischen between (prep)

"The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor causes a war betwixt princes."

 :: Michel de Montaigne, translated ::

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