Definition of Buttocks

1. Noun. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

Exact synonyms: Arse, Ass, Backside, Behind, Bottom, Bum, Buns, Butt, Can, Derriere, Fanny, Fundament, Hind End, Hindquarters, Keister, Nates, Posterior, Prat, Rear, Rear End, Rump, Seat, Stern, Tail, Tail End, Tooshie, Tush
Generic synonyms: Body Part
Group relationships: Body, Torso, Trunk
Derivative terms: Posterior

Definition of Buttocks

1. Noun. (plural of buttock) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Buttocks

1. buttock [n] - See also: buttock

Medical Definition of Buttocks

1. The buttocks; the prominence formed by the gluteal muscles on either side. Synonym: clunes, nates, breech. (05 Mar 2000)

Literary usage of Buttocks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical treatise on the diseases of children and infants at the breast by Eugène Bouchut (1855)
"These are gourmet, redness and fissures of the buttocks and thigh*, simple pemphigus, ... This disease is characterized by simple erythema of the buttocks, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... the buttocks, the breech. to the winter. Dromedary (thieves), a bungler. Drop (American), to get the drop on a man, to forestall, get first advantage. ..."

3. Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man by William Lawrence (1822)
"peculiarity in the same women: I mean the vast masses of fat accumulated on their buttocks, and giving to them the appearance of extraordinary and unnatural ..."

4. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"BARBER'S CHAIR. Proverbial for accommodating all bottoms. See Ray. It is like a barber's chmr. that fita all buttocks • the. pin-buttock,.the ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1887)
"THE buttocks. 103. buttocks: Bony Landmarks.—The bony landmarks of the buttock в which can be distinctly felt are : 1, the posterior superior spines of the ..."

6. Obstetrics, normal and operative by George Peaslee Shears (1916)
"Grasping the thighs and buttocks during extraction. backward traction upon the foetus which is an essential part of the operation. ..."

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