different between backside vs bahookie

English

Etymology

From back +? side

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæk?sa?d/

Noun

backside (plural backsides)

1. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly:
   1. The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (Britain dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.

   2. (euphemistic) A person's buttocks.
      • c. 1500, Robin Hood, Bk. ii, Ch. iv, p. 236:

        With an arrowe so broad, He shott him into the backe-syde.

      • 1992 May 4, The Independent, p. 13:

        Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside.

   3. (obsolete) The back side of a page: a verso.
2. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.

Synonyms

• (outhouse): backhouse (US, Canada); see also Thesaurus:bathroom
• (buttocks): rear; see also Thesaurus:buttocks
• (verso): See verso

Derived terms

• get off one's backside
• my backside
• sit on one's backside

Translations

References

• "backside, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• diebacks

English

Noun

bahookie (plural bahookies)

1. (Scotland) backside, bottom