'tis

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See also: tis, TIS, tîş, -tis, and t'is

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'tis

  1. (literary or archaic, also occasionally informal) Contraction of it is.
    Synonym: it's
    ’Tis a shame!
    ’Tis but a scratch!

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Contraction

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'tis

  1. Alternative form of tis
    • NOTES TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE
      (3) "'Tis aul in shruaanès."

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 98