Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several hoofed mammals of the genus Equus, resembling and closely related to the horses but having a smaller build and longer ears, and including the domesticated donkey.
- noun A foolish or stupid person.
- noun The buttocks.
- noun The anus.
- noun Sexual intercourse.
- adjective Used in combination with adjectives as an intensive.
- idiom (have (one's) head up (one's) ass) To behave in an ignorant or foolish manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ashes.
- noun A solidungulate quadruped of the family Equidœ, the Equus asinus.
- noun Any wild species of the subgenus Asinus, as the dziggetai or hemione, onager, etc.
- noun A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt; a fool; a blockhead.
- noun A post in the bridge of a pulp-vat on which the mold is placed to drain.
- noun A unit of weight in use in different parts of Germany until the adoption of the metric system. It was equal to 5 centigrams, or three quarters of a grain troy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A quadruped of the genus Equus (
Equus asinus ), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed. - noun A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt.
- noun [Sportive] The fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid, “The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another.”
- noun to do or say something very foolish or absurd.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus africanus, often domesticated and used a beast of burden.
- noun slang A
stupid person. - noun vulgar, slang
Buttocks . - noun vulgar, slang, uncountable
Sex . - noun vulgar, slang
Anus . - noun slang Used in
similes to express somethingbad orunpleasant . - noun slang Used after an adjective to indicate
extremes orexcessiveness . - noun slang One's
self or person, chiefly theirbody .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse
- noun a pompous fool
- noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- noun slang for sexual intercourse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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[38] The story goes that a traveller who had hired an ass, having placed himself in its shadow to escape the heat of the sun, was sued by the driver, who had pretended that he had let the ass, not but its shadow; hence the Greek proverb, _to quarrel about the shade of an ass_, i.e. about nothing at all.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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But in the first place, it is to be observed, that there seems to have been a blunder in this transaction; for according to the Hebrew idiom of the passage quoted above, the personage there spoken of, was to ride upon an ass colt; whereas, the apostles, in order to be sure of fulfilling the prophecy, represent Jesus as riding upon an ass, and the colt, too!
The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old George Bethune English 1807
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Mr. Orton says -- "The mule, the produce of the male ass and mare, is essentially a _modified ass_: the ears are those of an ass somewhat shortened; the mane is that of the ass, erect; the tail is that of an ass; the skin and color are those of an ass somewhat modified; the legs are slender and the hoofs high, narrow and contracted, like those of an ass.
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And leave it to A-house to come up with the term ass cleavage anyway.
A trace of ass cleavage: obscene in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Ann Althouse 2008
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And leave it to A-house to come up with the term ass cleavage anyway.
A trace of ass cleavage: obscene in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Ann Althouse 2008
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I'd use the term ass-backwards, but those muscles need a little rest.
Kotaku 2009
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On the other hand, arresting someone just because they're a pain in the ass is a good way to meet 42 USC 1983 up close and personal.
Discourse.net: Deconstructing the Police Report in the Skip Gates Arrest Case 2009
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You think something you pulled out of your ass is a proof?
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Cramming your head up your ass is also doable, apparently.
Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010
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Hate to relate this to you fauxdrhunt, but not everything you blow out your ass is a fact.
sakhalinskii commented on the word ass
"It's embarrassing as fuck to have an ass!" - Tourette's Guy
July 30, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word ass
"n. A post in the bridge of a pulp-vat on which the mold is placed to drain."
-- from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
September 14, 2015