bottom
see also: Bottom
Pronunciation Noun
Bottom
Proper noun
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see also: Bottom
Pronunciation Noun
bottom
- The lowest part of anything.
- 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (
please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗: - 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, chapter 19
- a great ship's kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out}}
- No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
- Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.
- A garment worn to cover below the torso (as opposed to the top)
- There's a hole in her pyjama bottoms.
- (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- lack bottom
- (British, US) A valley, often used in place names.
- Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?
- the bottoms and the high grounds
- The buttocks or anus.
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
- Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- (LGBT, slang) A person with a preference for being penetrated during sexual intercourse.
- (physics) A bottom quark.
- (often, figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- Silkworms finish their bottoms in […] fifteen days.
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
- An abyss.
- (obsolete) Power of endurance.
- a horse of a good bottom
- (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
- (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- (lowest part) base
- (buttocks) See Thesaurus:buttocks
- (buttocks) sit upon, derriere, 🍑
- (BDSM) catcher
- (LGBT) See Thesaurus:male homosexual
- (lowest part) top
- (BDSM) top
- (LGBT) See Thesaurus:male homosexual
- French: fond, bas, dessous
- German: Boden, Grund, Unterseite
- Italian: fondo, (please verify) parte#Italian|parte inferiore f attention it
- Portuguese: fundo
- Russian: дно
- Spanish: fondo
- French: arrière-train, cul, derrière, popotin, potron, séant
- Italian: sedere
- Portuguese: cu, fundilho
- Russian: зад
- Spanish: culo
- French: passif, enculé
- German: passiv
- Italian: passivo
- Portuguese: passivo
- Russian: пасси́в
- Spanish: pasivo
- Spanish: fondo
bottom (bottoms, present participle bottoming; past and past participle bottomed)
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.]
- to bottom a chair
- (obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). [17th c.]
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, First Folio, III.2:
- As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, First Folio, III.2:
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon. [from 17th c.]
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 26:
- But an absurd opinion concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.
- those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
- 2001, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, p.59:
- Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 26:
- (transitive, chiefly, in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. [from 18th c.]
- 1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:
- My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.
- 1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded. [17th–19th c.]
- 'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
- Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms.
- 'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.]
- To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.]
- (intransitive) To be the more passive or receiving partner in a sexual act or relationship; to be submissive in a BDSM relationship; to be anally penetrated in gay sex. [from 20th c.]
- I've never bottomed in my life.
bottom (not comparable)
- The lowest or last place or position.
- Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
Bottom
Proper noun
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