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threesome, n. and a. (adv.) orig. Sc.|ˈθriːsəm|
Also 4–6 thresum, 6 thriesum.
[f. three + -some.]
A. n.
a. Three persons together; three forming a company.
1375Barbour Bruce iii. 420 It [boat] sa litill wes, þat It Mycht our þe wattir bot thresum flyt. 1549Compl. Scot. xv. 131 It is nocht possibil to gar thresum keip consel. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 275 Mccleine..eschapit and thriesum with him. 1816Scott Bl. Dwarf viii, The rest disperse by twasome and threesome through the waste, and meet me at the Trysting Pool. 1893Stevenson Catriona xxix, We..sat down to meat, we threesome. 1926[see foursome n. 2]. 1951[see gay a. 2 c]. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 5 June 333/2 The stresses and strains of this uneasy threesome are subtly conveyed. 1972Screw 12 June 33/1 (Advt.), Especially well endowed & very fond of threesomes (with couples or 2 women). 1977Gay News 24 Mar. 14/4 These may include threesomes in which one or both partners bring home a person who is shared in bed. 1977New Yorker 8 Aug. 57/1 A number of them were looking down from the Turnberry Hotel at the Ailsa course, on which the last threesomes were finishing their rounds. 1980TWA Ambassador Oct. 92/1 Robbins's first and better novel, Another Roadside Attraction (praised by an odd threesome: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Graham Greene and Thomas Pynchon). 1981M. McMullen Other Shoe (1982) ii. 22 Justin, why don't you squire Meg?.. Threesomes are awkward.
b. A game of golf in which one person plays against two opponents.
1901Rules of Golf 5 A single player may play against two, when the match is called ‘a threesome’. 1931W. Martyn Scarlett Murder iv. 48, I was playing a three⁓some against Sir Griffith Wadham and Lord Berrington.
B. adj. Chiefly Sc.
a. Consisting or composed of three; performed by three together; threefold, triple.
1839New Monthly Mag. LVII. 42 Any thing like a country-dance, or a threesome or foursome reel. 1872Morris Love is Enough (1873) 8 To have seen Your nimble feet tread down the green In threesome dance. 1875― æneid v. 580 Then..they..in threesome order slip Their cloven ranks. 1878H. H. Gibbs Ombre 4 Tresillo means a threesome game. Mod. Sc. A threesome cluster of nuts. She does her back-hair in a threesome plait.
b. quasi-adv. nonce-use: cf. foursome 1 b.
1875Morris æneid vii. 639 Mail-coat threesome laid Of golden link.
Hence ˈthreesomeness nonce-wd., the quality of existing in threes, triplicity.
1853Athenæum 15 Oct. 1216 What may be called the threesomeness of everything in the moral world. |