thissen, adv. dial.
(ˈðɪs(ə)n)
Also 9 this'ne, this(-)en, thisn, this'ns.
[perh. reduced from thiskin: cf. dial. siccan = swilk-kin, that'n what'n = whatkin.]
In this way or manner. Usually a thissen or thissens, in this way, thus.
(Some so understand Bottom's Thisne in Shakes. Mids. N. i. ii. 54.)
| a 1652 Brome Eng. Moor iii. ii, Ed. An Idiote is it. Buz. Yes: A very natural; and goes a thissen. 1707 S. Centlivre Platonick Lady iv. i, If old Roger Dowdy were alive and zeen me thissen. 1790 Mrs. Wheeler Westmld. Dial. 89 Tae gang on a thisen is a fearful Thing. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, This'ns, thus'ns, that'ns..in this or that manner. |