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through-other

[ throo-uhth-er ]

adjective

Chiefly Scot.


through-other

adjective

  1. untidy or dishevelled
  2. mixed up; in disorder
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of through-other1

First recorded in 1590–1600
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Example Sentences

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Twill be no great while before she’s glad enough to come back here, rick or no rick, you may depend; for we’re all through-other up at our place the now, with one of the childer sick, and ne’er a girl kept.

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It is the speech form of through-other, in which shape it eludes pursuit in the Oxford dictionary.

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One or two gentlemen went by on horses—Achnatra and Major Hall and the through-other son of Lorn Campbell.

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There were tired, untidy women, overrun by circumstances, with that look about them which the Scotch call "through-other."

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During my above-mentioned studies of horticulture, I became dissatisfied with the Linnæan, Jussieuan, and Everybody-elseian arrangement of plants, and have accordingly arranged a system of my own; and unbound my botanical book, and rebound it in brighter green, with all the pages through-other, and backside foremost—so as to cut off all the old paging numerals; and am now printing my new arrangement in a legible manner, on interleaved foolscap.

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