nether - Hamely Tongue
Source: The Hamely Tongue: A Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim
Author: James Fenton
Comments: ‘The Hamely Tongue’ has been widely acclaimed as the authoritative record of contemporary (surviving) Ulster-Scots in its heartland of County Antrim where James Fenton faithfully recorded his dictionary items among a network of other native speakers over a 30-year period. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from ‘Part One’ of the fourth edition of 2014 and includes over 3000 word entries. The book preliminaries, supplementary word lists and end matter have been excluded.
nether ~ neither. hae nether chick nor chile (usu. of a married couple) have (i.e. be blessed with/ encumbered by) neither livestock nor offspring; (usu.) have no offspring. nether heart nor eye in neither interest in nor enthusiasm for. nether in nor on neither (adequately) fed nor clad. nether slow nor easy of no little force or extent (She gien me a tonguin wuz nether slow nor easy). nether yin thing nor the ither neither fish nor fowl; (of a compromise, a proposal, etc.) not satisfactory on any count, not decisive one way or the other.
