buttock
Human buttocks.
Meaning
Noun
- 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.
- The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
Origin
- From Middle English buttok, probably from Old English buttuc. Attested with its current anatomical meaning since 1300. A diminutive form of what is presumably the Old English precursor of butt + -ock.
Modern English dictionary
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