Word.ws English Dictionary

quakebuttocks

quakebuttocks is the plural of quakebuttock.

Meaning of quakebuttock

Noun

quakebuttock (plural quakebuttocks)

  1. (humorous, obsolete, rare) A coward.
    • See what theſe times are grown to, before twenty / I ruſh'd into the world, which is indeed / Much like the Art of ſwiming, he that will attain to't / Muſt fall plump, and duck himſelf at firſt, / And that will make him hardy and advent'rous, / And not ſtand putting in one foot, and ſhiver, / And...c. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry...

Questions about quakebuttocks

What is quakebuttocks the plural of?
Quakebuttocks is the plural of quakebuttock.

Words near quakebuttocks in the dictionary

  1. quake-buttock
  2. quake-buttocks
  3. quakebreech
  4. quakebreeches
  5. quakebuttock
  6. quakebuttocks
  7. quaked
  8. quaked in one's boots
  9. quaked in one's shoes
  10. quakelike
  11. Quakenbush

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quakebuttocks (page history and authors); quakebuttock (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “quakebuttocks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/quakebuttocks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.