An obsolete Yorkshire dialect adjective meaning threefold or thrice — relating to the number three.
An obsolete Yorkshire dialect adjective meaning threefold or thrice — relating to the number three. The -some suffix as a numerical intensifier appears in twofold, threesome, and related forms. Now entirely archaic and encountered only in historical Yorkshire dialect records.
He swore thrissome to seal the bargain, as was the old custom.
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(obsolete, Yorkshire) Threefold, thrice.
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