backside
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbækˌsaɪd/
backside (plural backsides)
- The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly:
- The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemism) an outhouse.
- The building's backside faced an alley and was covered in grime and graffiti.
- (euphemism) A person's buttocks.
- Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside.
- c. 1500, Robin Hood, Bk. ii, Ch. iv, p. 236:
- With an arrowe so broad, He shott him into the backe-syde.
- 1992 May 4, The Independent, p. 13:
- Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside.
- (obsolete) The back side of a page: a verso.
- The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemism) an outhouse.
- (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
- (outhouse) backhouse (US); see also Thesaurus:bathroom
- (buttocks) rear; see also Thesaurus:buttocks
- (verso) See verso
- Italian: lato posteriore
- Portuguese: traseira
- French: arrière
- German: Hintern, Gesäß
- Italian: sedere, di dietro
- Portuguese: traseiro
- Russian: за́дница
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