subs. and adj. (old).—1. An indefinite number: also TWENTY AND TWENTY.
1593. SHAKESPEARE, Venus and Adonis, 575. Under TWENTY locks kept fast.
1623. BACON, History of the Reign of King Henry VII., xi. 350. As for Maximilian, upon TWENTY respects he could not have been the man.
d. 1704. T. BROWN, A Comical View of London and Westminster, in Works, i. 153. The tallow-chandlers such dutiful and loyal subjects, that they don’t care, if there were TWENTY AND TWENTY birth-days in a year, to help off with their commodity.
1748. RICHARDSON, Clarissa, ii. 145. I have hinted it to you TWENTY AND TWENTY times by word of mouth. Ibid. (1753), The History of Sir Charles Grandison, l. xlvii. I could satisfy myself about TWENTY AND TWENTY things, that now and then I want to know.
2. (Rugby).—The Sixth Form.
