different between backside vs fundament

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

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fund?mentum (“foundation”), from fund? (“I lay the bottom, I found”). Doublet of fondamento.

Noun

fundament (plural fundaments)

1. Foundation.
2. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
   • 1703, Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized:

     It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.

   • 1861, Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies., page 119

     ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck […]

   • 1864, Alfred Fennings, Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well, page 9

     Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament, beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.

   • 2008, Eric Summers, Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West, page 38[1]:

     I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament.

3. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

Related terms

• fundamental

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch fondament, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fund? (“I lay the bottom, I found”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?n.da??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: fun?da?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

fundament n (plural fundamenten, diminutive fundamentje n)

1. basis
2. foundation, basis

   Synonym: fundering

Related terms

• fundamenteel

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: fundamen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fundamentum

Noun

fundament n (definite singular fundamentet, indefinite plural fundament or fundamenter, definite plural fundamenta or fundamentene)

1. a foundation

Related terms

• fundamental

References

• “fundament” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin fundamentum

Noun

fundament n (definite singular fundamentet, indefinite plural fundament, definite plural fundamenta)

1. a foundation

Related terms

• fundamental

References

• “fundament” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fun?da.m?nt/

Noun

fundament m inan

1. foundation (lowest and supporting part or member of a wall)

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French fondement

Noun

fundament n (plural fundamente)

1. foundation

Declension