different between buttock vs bumster

English

Etymology

From Middle English buttok, probably from Old English buttuc (“end; end piece”; also, “short piece of land”). Attested with its current anatomical meaning since 1300. A diminutive form of what is presumably the Old English precursor of butt +? -ock (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t?k/, /?b?t?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?t?k/, [?b???k]

Noun

buttock (plural buttocks)

1. (usually in the plural) 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.

   Synonyms: (crude) asscheek, cheek; see also Thesaurus:buttocks

2. (nautical) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
   • 1925, Adventure, Volume 54

     There came a blast of freezing wind that made Skell shrug himself against the oaken post on which the ship's buttock rested.

Usage notes

The plural form is usually used in the singular sense for a single person's posterior, often called butt.It is rarer to refer to only a single buttock, which is then usually specified as left or right.

Derived terms

• quakebuttock

Translations

See also

• callipygian/callipygous
• dasypygal

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “buttock”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain, apparently from bum +? -ster.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?mst?/

Noun

bumster (plural bumsters)

1. (chiefly attributive) A pair of very low-cut trousers which reveal part of the buttocks.
   • 2010, Rajini Vaidyanatham, BBC News Magazine, 12 Feb 2010:

     Today the sight of muffin tops over jeans or a sneaky flash of bottom cleavage might not seem too shocking [...], but when McQueen first sent out his models in bumsters, it was a radical departure and attracted many column inches of comment and debate.

   • 2011, Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 4 May 2011:

     And he would have relished the juxtaposition of the wedding dress with the infamous bumster trousers that are, as of this week, on show in the Metropolitan Museum.

2. In The Gambia, a young man who solicits money or favours from tourists, sometimes in exchange for sex.
   • 2006, Craig Emms & Linda Barnett, The Gambia, 2nd edition, Bradt Travel Guides 2006, p. 93:

     Believe us when we say, the one thing that is most likely to spoil your holiday in The Gambia is constantly getting hassled by bumsters.

   • 2007, Ylva Hernlund & Bettina Shell-Duncan, Transcultural Bodies, Rutgers 2007, p. 302:

     In The Gambia, [...] hundreds of young, middle-aged, and elderly female tourists [...] flood the beaches and resorts of Senegambia, Fajara, Kotu, and Kololi each year in search of sexual liaisons with local young men known as bumsters.

   • 2009, Brian Boniface & Chris Cooper, Worldwide Destinations, Butterworth-Heinemann 2009, p. 447:

     there is concern in this traditional Muslim society about some of its social manifestations such as sex tourism and beach hustling by bumsters.

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