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buttock

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈbʌtək/Part of speech nounSorted bckottuStarts with BEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump

Word origin

Inherited 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).

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  • Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […]
    Hengist, King of Kent
  • There came a blast of freezing wind that made Skell shrug himself against the oaken post on which the ship's buttock rested.

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