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buttocks

UK/ˈbʌ.təks//ˈbʌ.təks/

buttocks is the plural of buttock.

Meaning of buttock

Noun

buttock (plural buttocks)

  1. (plural-normally) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum, and the top of the legs.
    • Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […]c. 1615–1620 (date written), Tho[mas] Middleton, The Mayor of Quinborough: A Comedy. […] [Hengist, King of Kent], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1661, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 61
  2. The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
    • There came a blast of freezing wind that made Skell shrug himself against the oaken post on which the ship's buttock rested.1925, Adventure, volume 54

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Questions about buttocks

What is buttocks the plural of?
Buttocks is the plural of buttock.
How do you pronounce buttocks?
Buttocks is pronounced /ˈbʌ.təks/ (UK).

Words near buttocks in the dictionary

  1. buttockers
  2. buttocking
  3. buttockings
  4. buttockless
  5. buttocklike
  6. buttocks
  7. buttocky
  8. buttom
  9. button
  10. button accordion
  11. button accordions

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