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Buttock   /bˈətək/   Listen
noun
Buttock  n.  
1.
The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump. Often used in the plural see buttocks.
Synonyms: cheek.
2.
(Naut.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.





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"Buttock" Quotes from Famous Books



... even more complicated by neighborhood gossip linking Lantier and Virginie. The neighbors were a bit too hasty in this also; he had not even reached the stage of buttock-pinching with her. Still, the Lorilleuxs delighted in talking sympathetically to Gervaise about the affair between Lantier and Virginie. The Boches maintained they had never seen a more handsome couple. The odd thing in all this was that the Rue de la Goutte-d'Or ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... sir.—Now am I made man for ever: I'll not leave my horse for forty:[141] if he had but the quality of hey-ding-ding, hey-ding-ding, I'd make a brave living on him: he has a buttock as slick as an eel [Aside].—Well, God b'wi'ye, sir: your boy will deliver him me: but, hark you, sir; if my horse be sick or ill at ease, if I bring his water to you, you'll tell ...
— The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus • Christopher Marlowe
... there might be some freeboard. He had seen vessels floating bottom up. Usually a section of the keel and a portion of the garboard streaks were in sight above the sea. But there could be no escape through the bottom of the craft above them where they stood in the cabin. He knew that the counter and buttock ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... segment is laterally crossed by three ridges of skin. The first, which is the only one indicated in the drawing, goes right across the buttock. In some animals there is an indication of a second below this, and about fourteen inches lower down a third, which only goes about a quarter of the way across. The tail is almost concealed in a deep groove, in which lie the ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale
... that this mule was my wife. Now it so happened that I went forth and was absent one whole year; and when I returned from my journey I came to her by night, and saw a black slave lying with her on the carpet bed and they were talking, and dallying, and laughing, and kissing and playing the close buttock game. When she saw me, she rose and came hurriedly at me with a gugglet[FN58] of water; and, muttering spells over it, she besprinkled me and said, "Come forth from this thy shape into the shape of a dog;" and ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton


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