Nather vs Nether - What's the difference?
nather | nether |
(obsolete, regional) neither
* {{quote-book, year=1854, author=William Harrison Ainsworth, title=The Lancashire Witches, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Weel, then," said Jem, imperfectly comprehending the signs made to him by the reeve, "the hut looks nather to t' south naw to t' north, but to t' west; it feaces t' moor; an there is a path fro' it to Hook Cliff." }} Lower; under.
Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
* 1873 , Mark Twain, The Gilded Age , page187:
To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
(mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
As a conjunction nather
is (obsolete|regional) neither.As an adjective nether is
lower; under.As an adverb nether is
down; downward.As a verb nether is
to bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.As a noun nether is
oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.nather
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Conjunction
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nether
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) nether, nethere, nithere, from (etyl) .Adjective
- The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
- The nether regions.
- When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,