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4 lettersPronunciation /ɑːs/Part of speech nounSorted aersStarts with AEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. vulgar slang for anus

Word origin

From Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Dutch aars and German Arsch), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁órsos (“backside, buttocks”).

Used in a sentence

  • As the novel progresses, he is shot in the hand with his own gun, shot in the arse with someone else's and lacerated by a prosthetic weed trimmer.
  • No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse.
  • “You're an arse,” Ellen said. ¶ “Please? You must like something about me …?” ¶ “I do. You're an arse. I just told you that. I feel comfy with you, because you're such an arse.”

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