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bottom
English
Alternative forms
- botton (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ud?m?n (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek ?????? (puthm?n, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit ????? (budhna, “bottom”), Persian ??? (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a person” is from 1794; the “verb to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?t?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?t?m/, [?b???m]
Noun
bottom (countable and uncountable, plural bottoms)
- The lowest part of anything.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, chapter 19
- a great ship's kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out}}
- No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
- A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- Coordinate term: top
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- a soda and a bottom of brandy
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, chapter 19
- (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 71:
- The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.
- 1812, Amos Stoddard, Sketches of Louisiana
- the bottoms and the high grounds
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 71:
- (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- The buttocks or anus.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
- An abyss.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- November 8, 1773, [first name not given] Bancroft, in Boston Post-Boy
- Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
- November 8, 1773, [first name not given] Bancroft, in Boston Post-Boy
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- (gay slang) A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.
- (particle physics) A bottom quark.
- Hypernym: flavor
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.
- (obsolete) Power of endurance.
- (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Synonyms
- (lowest part): base
- (buttocks, British, euphemistic): sit upon, derriere, ????
- (BDSM, gay): catcher
Antonyms
- (lowest part): top
- (BDSM, gay): top
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? French: bottom
Translations
Verb
bottom (third-person singular simple present bottoms, present participle bottoming, simple past and past participle bottomed)
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.]
- to bottom a chair
- (obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). [17th c.]
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, First Folio, III.2:
- As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, First Folio, III.2:
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon. [from 17th c.]
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 26:
- But an absurd opinion concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.
- those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
- 2001, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, p.59:
- Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 26:
- (transitive, chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. [from 18th c.]
- 1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:
- My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.
- 1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded. [17th–19th c.]
- 'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
- Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms.
- 'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.]
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.]
- (BDSM, intransitive) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. [from 20th c.]
- (gay slang, intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex. [from 20th c.]
- I've never bottomed in my life.
Derived terms
- bottom out
Translations
Adjective
bottom (not comparable)
- The lowest or last place or position.
- Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
Translations
See also
- bottommost
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English bottom.
Adjective
bottom (plural bottoms)
- (LGBT, slang) bottom (passive in role)
Synonyms
- passif
Portuguese
Noun
bottom m (plural bottons)
- button (a badge worn on clothes)
- Synonym: botão
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inning
English
Etymology 1
Back-formation from innings, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n??/
- Rhymes: -?n??
Noun
inning (plural innings)
- (baseball) A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
- (softball) A similar period of play.
- (billiards) A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
- A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
- (obsolete) The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
- 1563, Richarde Jugge, Anno Quinto Reginae Elizabethe:
- […] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, […]
- 1563, Richarde Jugge, Anno Quinto Reginae Elizabethe:
- (obsolete) Lands recovered from the sea.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
Related terms
- top: (baseball, softball) first half of an inning
- bottom: (baseball, softball) second half of an inning
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (iningu)
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
inning
- present participle of inn
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?inin/, [?i.n?n]
Noun
inning m (plural innings)
- (baseball) inning
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