betwixt

From Middle English bitwixe, from Old English betwēox. Compare Saterland Frisian twiske (“between”), Dutch tussen, German zwischen.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɪˈtwɪkst/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkst

betwixt

1. (literary or archaic) Between, specifically between two objects.
   • Shakespeare

     There was some speech of marriage / Betwixt myself and her.

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 3

     When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.

• betwyxt (obsolete)

• betwixt and between
• 'twixt, twixt