asse
/æs/
asse is the obsolete spelling of ass.
Meaning of ass
Noun (1)
ass (plural asses)
- Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden.
- And Iesse tooke an asse laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by Dauid his sonne vnto Saul.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 16:20
- A stupid or inconsiderate person.
- Near-synonyms: fool, idiot, jerk, asswipe; see also Thesaurus:jerk
- A compositor.
- Sometimes by way of joke, and sometimes by way of irritation, compositors are called Asses by the pressmen.[1841, William Savage, Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 24
Noun (2)
ass (countable and uncountable, plural asses)
- The buttocks.
- Synonyms:
- 'tocks, arse, arse cheeks, ass cheeks, back, backside, batty, behind, blessed assurance, booty
- The anus.
- Train compartment: two sick young junkies on their way to Lexington tear their pants down in convulsions of lust. One of them soaps his cock and works it up the other's ass with a corkscrew motion.1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 81
- Sex; a person to have sex with; with vulgar emphasis on their corporeality (their body) over their personhood.
- I'm going to go down to the bar and try to get me some ass.
- Synonyms:
- poontang, poon, punani, pussy, tail, tang, aphrodisia, carnal knowledge, coitus, coition
Noun
asse (plural asses)
- A Cape fox (Vulpes chama).
- and the little Asse Fox (Canis chama).1906, Praagh, L. V, The Transvaal and its mines : the encyclopedic history of the Transvaal
- South of the Zambezi the group reappears in the shape of the asse-fox or fennec, (V. cama), a dark-coloured species, with a black tip to the long, bushy tail and reddish-brown ears.1910, Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 ed. Vol. 10, page 769
- Synonyms:
- asse fox
Synonyms of asse
Forms of asse
| plural | asses |
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Origin of asse
Perhaps from Afrikaans asse (“ashes”), because the fur at the top of the Cape fox's body looks like ash.
Phrases with asse
Words that rhyme with asse
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- bagasse
- Corinthian brass
- cuirass
- en masse
- frass
- Lefkas
- madras
- morass
- Pendergrass
- volte-face
- wass
- world-class
- adder's grass
- alas
- bamboo grass
- chasse
- das
- dass
- dogtooth grass
- flyaway grass
- hey pass
- Inner Brass
- khalass
- khalassed
- lac
- lift pass
- low mass
- Neptune grass
- outclass
- Outer Brass
- Ratass
- rockmass
- saas
- shass
- tass
- tasse
- thass
- wassed
- wrasse
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: asse (page history and authors); ass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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