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English
Etymology
Possibly from the phrase “ah,” quoth he. First appears in the 1867 work Jim an' Nell.
Verb
akether
- (UK, West Country, Devon, obsolete) quoth he.
1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: a dramatic poem in the dialect of North Devon, page 20:"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.'
1876, Oliver Madox Brown, chapter 1, in The Dwale Bluth, volume 1, pages 57–58: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
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