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buttocks
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?b?t?ks/
Noun
buttocks
- plural of buttock.
- 1707, Thomas Brown, "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical, part three, page 184:
- At lea?t five Hundred of the?e reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ran?acking our Hou?es, leaving me ?ometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ?o much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
- 1707, Thomas Brown, "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical, part three, page 184:
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behind
English
Alternative forms
- behine (archaic, AAVE)
Etymology
From Middle English behinde, behinden, from Old English behindan (“on the back side of, behind”), equivalent to be- +? hind. Compare Old Saxon bihindan (“behind”, adverb), Middle High German behinter (“behind; back”).
Pronunciation
- (preposition, adverb)
- IPA(key): /b??ha?nd/, /b??ha?nd/
- (noun)
- (General American) IPA(key): /?bi??ha?nd/, /b??ha?nd/
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??ha?nd/, /b??ha?nd/
- Hyphenation: be?hind
Preposition
behind
- At the back of; positioned with something else in front of.
- To the back of. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
- After, time- or motion-wise.
- responsible for
- In support of.
- Left a distance by, in progress or improvement; inferior to.
- (nonstandard, US, slang) As a result or consequence of
Synonyms
- (at the back of): a-back (Chester), in back of, to the rear of.
Antonyms
- in front of
Derived terms
- behind every successful man there stands a woman
Translations
Adverb
behind (comparative behinder or more behind, superlative behindest or most behind)
- At the back part; in the rear. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
- Toward the back part or rear; backward.
- Overdue, in arrears.
- Slow; of a watch or clock.
- existing afterwards
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
- Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- (archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
- We cannot be sure that there is no evidence behind.
Usage notes
For usage in phrasal verbs, see Category:English phrasal verbs with particle (behind).
Translations
Noun
behind (plural behinds)
- the rear, back-end
- (informal) butt, the buttocks, bottom
- (Australian rules football) A one-point score.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The catcher.
- In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
- hind
- hiney
References
- behind in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- behind in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
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