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sixsome Chiefly Sc.|ˈsɪkssəm|
Also 5 sex sum, 5–9 Sc. saxsum.
[f. six a. + -some. Cf. OFris. sexasum (WFris. sechstesum, seizesum).]
1. a. As one of six; with five others. Obs. b. Six in all; six together. Now rare or Obs.
c897K. ælfred Oros. i. i. 18 Þara he sæde þæt he syxa sum ofsloᵹe syxtiᵹ on twam daᵹum. 1375Barbour Bruce vi. 231 And syne his suerd he swappit out,.. And slew sex sum weill soyn and ma. a1400Morte Arth. 471, I am sengilly here, with sex sum of knyghtes. 1470Henry Wallace ix. 703 Saxsum thar com, and brocht bot cartis thre. 1825Jamieson Suppl. s.v. Sum.
2. As adj. Performed by six persons together.
1888Saxby Lads of Lunda 216 The set began a sixsome reel.
Add:[1.] c. A company or party of six persons.
1934Webster, Sixsome, a group of six persons or things; now esp., a group of six persons playing together. 1967P. M. Hubbard Country of Again vi. 74 I'll make it a sixsome, with two non-bridge-players. 1981Daily Mail 30 Nov. 17/6 In fact their meetings have been in foursomes and sixsomes. 1987Daily Express 28 Mar. 20 The Waltons' saucy sixsome, Britain's first surviving sextuplets, are three-and-a-half years old. |