twosv.
/tuːz/ U.S. colloquial.
intransitive. To keep company with a person of the opposite sex.
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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or engage in courtship [verb (intransitive)] > walk out with person as lover > keep company as lovers
walk1849
to go together1871
twos1920
1920 S. Lewis Main St. i. 2 She played tennis,..went ‘twosing’, and joined half a dozen societies for the practice of the arts.
1924 Dial. Notes 5 291 Twosing,..going in couples.
Derivatives
ˈtwosing n.
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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun]
wooingc1000
wouhlechec1230
wouhlechunga1250
love work?a1300
love-druryc1300
love playc1390
suitc1475
lovemakinga1500
loveshipc1500
suiting1568
courtship1600
courting1607
suitoringa1640
amouring1675
sparking1804
sprunting1823
lovering1848
twosing1940
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. ii. 119 They chose one another monotonously in the twosing games.
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