different between backside vs moonwalk

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

Moon +? walk

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mu?nw??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?munw?k/

Noun

moonwalk (plural moonwalks)

1. An exploration of the Moon's surface on foot (by an astronaut).
2. (dance) A dance move in which the dancer slides backwards though the feet move as if walking forwards; the backslide.
3. (dance) A dance style in which the dancer appears to be moving in a low gravity environment.

Hypernyms

• (exploration of the Moon on foot): extravehicular activity
• (dance style): dance

Translations

Verb

moonwalk (third-person singular simple present moonwalks, present participle moonwalking, simple past and past participle moonwalked)

1. (intransitive) To walk on the surface of the Moon.
2. (intransitive) To walk in leaps, like on the Moon or on other low gravity surfaces.
3. (intransitive, dance) To perform the moonwalk.
4. (intransitive) To walk in a manner that is similar to the moonwalk dance style; to move while sliding backwards as though the feet move as if one was walking forwards.

Derived terms

• moonrun
• moonwalker

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English moonwalk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mun.??(l)k/, /?mun.??(l)k/

Noun

moonwalk m (plural moonwalken, diminutive moonwalkje n)

1. (dance) moonwalk

Derived terms

• moonwalken