"akether" meaning in English

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Verb

Etymology: Possibly from the phrase “ah,” quoth he. First appears in the 1867 work Jim an' Nell. Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} akether
  1. (UK, West Country, Devon, obsolete) quoth he. Tags: Devon, UK, West-Country, obsolete Synonyms: aketha
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          "ref": "1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: a dramatic poem in the dialect of North Devon, page 20:",
          "text": "\"Us wur betwitting Bob to-day,\nVor gieing all es things away,\nBegummers, us wur cort,\nAkether, 'bin ma kit's ago,\nI can't work w'e'r I wull or no,\nI'll maunch an' drink vor nort.'",
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          "text": "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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