Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as tendsome.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A group of ten persons or things; one more than a ninesome, one less than an elevensome

Etymologies

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ten +‎ -some

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Examples

  • “Then it would be a tensome, with all those dirty dishes.”

    Couple Most Likely To Darcy, Lillian 2007

  • The tensome exploded onto the international scene in 1986, the year Paul Simon ignored a cultural boycott of apartheid South

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

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