different between tocher vs tother

English

Etymology

From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

1. A dowry.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 121:

     And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher.

Verb

tocher (third-person singular simple present tochers, present participle tochering, simple past and past participle tochered)

1. (transitive) To supply with a dowry.

Anagrams

• Hector, Troche, hector, orchet, rochet, rotche, troche

Scots

Etymology

From Middle Irish tochar ( > Scottish Gaelic tochradh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tox?r/

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

1. dowry; trousseau
   • 1791, Robert Burns, ‘My Tocher's the Jewel’:

     Your proffer o' luve's an airle-penny, / My tocher's the bargain ye wad buy […].

English

Alternative forms

• toder, t'other

Etymology

From Middle English þe toþer, from the incorrect division of thet other (“the/that other”). Compare Scots tither; English tone. More at that, other.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?ð?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(?)

Pronoun

tother

1. (now dialectal) Other. Most often used after the.

Usage notes

• Originally preceded by the. The spelling t'other arose from the misconception of being a contraction of the other.

Adjective

tother (not comparable)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) The other (of two).
2. (obsolete or dialectal) Other, all others.

See also

• tone

Anagrams

• hotter, throte