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foursome en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈfɔɹsəm/ rhotic
• /ˈfɔːsəm/ non-rhotic

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr Proto-Germanic *fedwōr Proto-West Germanic *feuwar Old English fēower Middle English four English four Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English foursome From four + -some.

Meanings

1. A group of four, a quartet or a game (such as golf) played by four players, especially by two teams of two.
   • And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves. 2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in The New York Times:
   • The fired-up foursome takes itself very seriously, singing politically charged lyrics, which, in the tradition of Strife and Damnation AD, are strategically placed in the middle of slamming, moshable breakdowns. 1999, CMJ New Music Report, volume 59, number 631, page 28:
   • Also, since the players teed off simultaneously, the infamous "shotgun start," with several foursomes at each tee box, the tournaments ran notoriously slow. 2011 October, Mike Nettleton, Shotgun Start, Krill Press, →ISBN:
2. A sex act between four people.

Forms

Deriveds

mixed foursome · foursome reel · greensome

Relateds

threesome

Synonyms

quaternion (group of four) · tetrad · fourgie (sex act)

Translations (22)

cmn 四P (sex act between four people) · nl kwartet (group of four) · de Vierer (group of four) · fr quadrille (group of four) · de Foursome (group of four) · nl viertal (group of four) · sv fyrkant (sex act between four people) · ru четвёрка (group of four) · pt quarteto (group of four) · hi चौकड़ा चुदाई (sex act between four people) · fr quatuor (group of four) · pl czwórka (group of four) · se njealjis (group of four) · ru че́тверо (group of four) · pl czworokąt (sex act between four people) · fi nelikko (group of four) · bg четворка (sex act between four people) · bg четворка (group of four) · es cuarteto (group of four) · da firkant (sex act between four people) · pl czwórca (group of four) · hu négyes (group of four)