From: rii@online.ru (Radchenko Igor)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.lang.russian.misc
Subject: Re: Troika = Threesome?
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 10:38:49 GMT
Message-ID: <3a86595f.251650404@news.parma.ru>
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On Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:52:33 -0800, Dan Pollock <dbpollock@lycos.com>
wrote:

>Query -- Is the word "troika" ever used in Russia to describe
>a sexual "threesome," 
It's three-way "thing",  but so speaking not about all...
You can say "troika of  horses" (in the harness), planes (in the fly),
but not about sigarettes, tables, trees and so on.
The general unwrited rule here is - three things as one thing in some
action or intention.

Sexual troika, of course, will be understandable, but it might be  not
fully usual in some russian prases (exl. "shvedskaya troika" - 2 men
and 1 woman).
Much more useful is "vtroyom" (adverb) here, but without seeing all
phrase I can't say exactly...
For example, would you write about process in action or style of
sexual relations generally?

Directly using (by one word) "troika":
- detach "3" 
- troika of  horses in the harness (old using)
- costume with vest
- school score
- play card "3"
- "my phone number begin (starts?) of 3" - "U menya nomer na troiku"

>or three-way "thing"? I found no evidence 
>of this in the "Dictionary of Russian Obscenities" (Scythian Books,
>Oakland, 1987), but I'd like to use it this way in a story I'm working
>on. If not, what word is usually used?
>
>Thanks for any responses,
>Dan Pollock