| 释义 |
foursome, a. and n. orig. Sc.|ˈfɔəsəm|
[f. four a. + -some.]
A. adj.
1. a. Four (together). Also absol.
15..Douglas K. Hart i. 198 The fouresum baid and huvit on the grene. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 145 For, wer ȝe foursum in a flok, I compt ȝow not a leik.
b. Used for the nonce as adv.
1875Morris æneid vii. 509 Come from the cleaving of an oak with foursome driven wedge.
2. Performed by four persons together.
1814Scott Wav. xxviii, Dancing full merrily in the doubles and full career of a Scotch foursome reel. 1884J. Payne 1001 Nts. IX. 388 The Murebbes or foursome song occurs once only in the Nights.
B. n.
1. Golf. A match in which four persons take part, two playing on each side.
1867Cornh. Mag. Apr. 493 Perhaps you find three men who, with yourself, will make a good foursome.
2. A company, party, or dance of four persons.
1926[see eightsome a.]. 1926Amer. Speech I. 630/2 The expressions onesome, twosome, threesome, foursome, fivesome, are coming to be used in other fields than golf, as a ‘threesome at tennis’, a ‘foursome for bridge’, a ‘fivesome for dinner’. 1971Petticoat 17 July 15/1 Your friend wants you to make up a foursome with her boyfriend's unknown friend. 1971G. Mitchell Lament for Leto i. 26 Do you play bridge?.. I want to make up a foursome. |