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Nother vs Fother - What's the difference?

nother | fother |

In obsolete terms the difference between nother and fother

is that nother is another while fother is a wagonload; a load of any sort.

As a pronoun nother

is neither.

As an adjective nother

is neither.

As an adverb nother

is nor.

As a noun fother is

a wagonload; a load of any sort.

As a verb fother is

to feed animals (with fother).

nother

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) . Compare (neither), (nauther).

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)
  • Neither.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Neither.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • (label) Nor.
  • *, Bk.VII:
  • *:Than the quene seydeshe wyst nat how, nother in what manere.

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of , (m), influenced by re-analysis as a nother .

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (obsolete) Another.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Different, other.
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    fother

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) a wagonload; a load of any sort.
  • an old English measure of lead or other metals, usually containing 19.5 hundredweight; a fodder.
  • *1866 : Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19½ hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times. —James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168.
  • (dialect) Food for animals.
  • * 1663 ,
  • *:He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother , / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.
  • (unit of weight)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
  • To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).

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