Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural the fleshy part of the human body at the back of the hip, on which a person sits.
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- noun Plural form of
buttock .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
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The treatments seem reasonable, although the page about checking babies for foot problems by inspecting the number and even-ness of the creases under their buttocks is a little strange.
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Mr. Simms explores a variety of other possible derivations, including lud, a minced and, as the OED says, mocking form of lord, and luds, a term for buttocks.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Mr. Simms explores a variety of other possible derivations, including lud, a minced and, as the OED says, mocking form of lord, and luds, a term for buttocks.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Mr. Simms explores a variety of other possible derivations, including lud, a minced and, as the OED says, mocking form of lord, and luds, a term for buttocks.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Mr. Simms explores a variety of other possible derivations, including lud, a minced and, as the OED says, mocking form of lord, and luds, a term for buttocks.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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In American English up to about forty or fifty years ago, it meant "buttocks" -- but in present-day American English it survives only in the word "pratfall."
On being linguistically defeated DC 2008
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we can't have the word buttocks in a comments posting without mentioning Sir Cyril Smith...
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Guess I might as well light some fire to that fat ass, he mused, like whipping her buttocks was a monotonous task.
Stealing Candy Allison Hobbs 2010
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Guess I might as well light some fire to that fat ass, he mused, like whipping her buttocks was a monotonous task.
Stealing Candy Allison Hobbs 2010
reesetee commented on the word buttocks
In my opinion, best pronounced as Forrest Gump does in the movie of the same name: "I got shot in the buttock."
February 9, 2007
uselessness commented on the word buttocks
Three cheers for WeirdNet!
November 29, 2007
reesetee commented on the word buttocks
Wow! It's...it's...correct!
November 29, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word buttocks
Hip hip... Huzzah!
P.S. this is one of my sisters' favoritest words ever.
November 29, 2007
reesetee commented on the word buttocks
Really? Talk about your weirdies.... ;->
November 29, 2007
uselessness commented on the word buttocks
I just love the way this definition is worded, as if I keep body parts around the house, but reserve the fleshy ones in particular for sitting on.
November 29, 2007
bilby commented on the word buttocks
Good point, U. Would the Honourable Member for Dismemberment please come to order? Order!
November 29, 2007
reesetee commented on the word buttocks
And why not sit on the fleshy ones? They're so comfortable, after all.
November 29, 2007
yarb commented on the word buttocks
That definition is bizarre.
November 29, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word buttocks
"'All this bell I have been twisting and turning like a soul in torment, trying to make out the Pomone behind and the Ringle... in front. My buttocks are a grief to me.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 131
March 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word buttocks
Well, and haven't we all had days like that??
March 25, 2008
bilby commented on the word buttocks
Quick, somebody whip up a BAD BUM DAY t-shirt :-)
March 25, 2008
yarb commented on the word buttocks
Hands up whose buttocks are a grief to them or those around them.
March 25, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word buttocks
Shit yeah. Today my buttocks are grieving me most painfully.
March 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word buttocks
Seriously.
March 26, 2008
whichbe commented on the word buttocks
See tag.
December 31, 2008
madmouth commented on the word buttocks
(n): any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity
so it's all just buttocks in there...the whole thing, just buttocks! buttocks flowing down my buttocks, buttocks growing out of my buttocks, buttocks sending buttocks to my buttocks!
June 19, 2009