akether

alternative aketha

1. DevonUKWest Countryobsoletequoth he.First known use only 19th c.

   "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 Nell: a dramatic poem in the dialect of North Devon, page 20

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   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 deave-nort. Giggling akether!" shrieked the old woman, wild with resentment […]

   1876, Oliver Madox Brown, chapter 1, in The Dwale Bluth, volume 1, pages 57–58