sixsomen.adj.
/ˈsɪks(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsɪks(ə)m/, Scottish English /ˈsɪks(ə)m/ Chiefly Scottish.
A. n.
1. As one of six; with five others. Obsolete.
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c897 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. 18 Þara he sæde þæt he syxa sum ofsloge syxtig on twam dagum.
2. Six in all; six together. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > group of six
sixsome?a1400
senary1570
sextet1858
?a1400 Morte Arth. 471 I am sengilly here, with sex sum of knyghtes.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 231 And syne his suerd he swappit out,.. And slew sex sum [1489 Adv. sexsum] weill soyn and ma.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 9 Saxsum thar com and brocht bot cartis thre.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Sum It is also used in this sense in Lanarks., and carried on through all the numbers; as, twasum, saxsum, tensum [etc.].
B. adj.
As Performed by six persons together.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [adjective] > performed by six people
sixsome1888
1888 J. M. E. Saxby Lads of Lunda 216 The set began a sixsome reel.
Draft additions 1993
A company or party of six persons.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > group of six > people
sextumvirate1726
sexvirate1762
six1796
sixsome1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Sixsome, a group of six persons or things; now esp., a group of six persons playing together.
1967 P. M. Hubbard Country of Again vi. 74 I'll make it a sixsome, with two non-bridge-players.
1981 Daily Mail 30 Nov. 17/6 In fact their meetings have been in foursomes and sixsomes.
1987 Daily Express 28 Mar. 20 The Waltons' saucy sixsome, Britain's first surviving sextuplets, are three-and-a-half years old.
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