adv., etc. [Cf. MLG. sûtsûtwest, older Flem. suydsuydwest, Du. zuidzuidwest, G. südsüdwest.] In or from the direction situated midway between south and south-west. Also as sb. and adj.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, Wks. 1874, II. 284. And Affricus is takin for plat west wynd, that is bot sowth sowthwest.
1555. Eden, Decades, III. iii. (Arb.), 260. [It] runneth to the quarter of south southwest and north northeast.
1638. Chilmead, trans. Hues’ Treat. Globes, V. (Hakl. Soc.), 141. You must saile … to the Canary Islands by the South South-west Rumbe.
a. 1701. Maundrell, Journ. Jerus. (1714), Add. 6. Its Course is South South West.
1772–84. Cook’s Voy. (1790), I. 151. We discovered land from the mast head, bearing south-south-west.
1827. J. Holmes, Hist. United Brethren, ii. (ed. 2), 101. The coast … now turned to the south-south-west.
1842. Penny Cycl., XXIII. 215/2. 18 miles south-south-west from Bury.
1900. Westm. Gaz., 22 Aug., 10/1. The south-south-west of Natal.
Hence South-south-westerly, -western adjs.
1837. Penny Cycl., VIII. 204/2. Always with south-south-westerly winds. Ibid. (1840), XVI. 325/1. Flowing … in a south-south-western direction.
1850. Ansted, Elem. Geol., Min., etc. § 124. A south-south-westerly wind.
