ass

And Iesse tooke an asse laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by Dauid his sonne vnto Saul.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 16:20:

Thus the Aſſe having a peculiar mark of a croſſe made by a black liſt down his back, and another athwart, or at right angles down his ſhoulders; common opinion aſcribes this figure unto a peculiar ſignation; ſince that beaſt had the honour to bear our Saviour on his back.

1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Same [i.e., the Blacknesse of Negroes]”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 6th book, page 282:

[…] suddenly a man, in foreign garments: wonderfully real and distinct to look at: stood outside the window, with an axe stuck in his belt, and leading an ass laden with wood by the bridle.

1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 51:

In this section "animal" means any horse, cattle, ass, mule, sheep, pig, goat or dog.

1972, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part I, section 20(3)”, in Road Traffic Act 1972, page 14:

Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden.

That new kid left the cap off the syrup bottle again! What an ass.

Oh Vengeance! / Who? What an Aſſe am I?

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 264:

I had sprung to my feet. I was speaking, and yet I had prepared no words. Tarp Henry, my companion, was plucking at my skirts and I heard him whispering, "Sit down, Malone! Don't make a public ass of yourself."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

(often vulgar through confusion with other word) A stupid person.

Sometimes by way of joke, and sometimes by way of irritation, compositors are called Asses by the pressmen.

[1841, William Savage, Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 24:

(printing, slang, obsolete) A compositor.

From Middle English asse, from Old English assa, back-formed from assen (“she-ass”), from Celtic (compare Old Irish asan, Old Cornish asen), from Latin asinus. Displaced Old English esol, from Proto-West Germanic *asil, also a loanword from the same Latin word. Sense “stupid person” from the animal's reputation for stubbornness, going back to antiquity (compare Latin asinus (“slow-witted person”)).


ass

(countable and uncountable) The buttocks.

Train compartment: two sick young junkies on their way to Lexington tear their pants down in convulsions of lust. One of them soaps his cock and works it up the other's ass with a corkscrew motion.

1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 81:

That does it! Now listen! Why is it that everything today has involved things either going in or coming out of my ass? I’m sick of it! It’s completely immature!

1997 Matt Stone & Trey Parker, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe," South Park, Season 1, Episode 1 (aired August 13, 1997), Spoken by Eric Cartman (Trey Parker)

I'm going to go down to the bar and try to get me some ass.

piece of ass

Acid, booze, and ass / Needles, guns, and grass

1971, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Blue”, in Blue:

(synecdochically, uncountable) Sex; a person to have sex with; with vulgar emphasis on their corporeality (their body) over their personhood.

I feel like ass today. ― I am feeling very bad today.

This room smells like ass. ― This room smells very bad.

What a bunch of ass. ― What a bunch of lies/nonsense/disappointment.

(uncountable) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.

Get your lazy ass out of bed!

We risk our asses out there every day.

I'ma get medieval on your ass! (idiomatic sense "on you" (compare go crazy on you), not literally and specifically "on your buttocks")

Mess up one more time and it's your ass (i.e. you're fired)

(synecdochically, countable) A person; the self; (reflexively) oneself or one's person, chiefly their body. By extension, one's personal safety, or figuratively one's job, prospects, etc.

en-noun

ass (countable and uncountable, plural asses)

find one's ass with both hands and a flashlight

know one's ass from a hole in the ground

know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground

know the difference between one's ass and one's elbow

think the sun shines out of someone's ass

Variant of arse; used chiefly in North America. Ultimately from Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Old High German ars (German Arsch), Old Norse ars, Old Frisian ers), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érsos (compare Ancient Greek ὄρρος (órrhos)).
Etymological notes
Contrary to the widespread belief of this being a euphemism, it arose as a pronunciation spelling (of the older form arse still used in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) that shows the assimilation of /ɹ/ before coronal consonants (especially /s/), a phenomenon that has been present in nonstandard speech from the Middle English period onwards; this is distinct from the later phenomenon of non-rhoticity as /ɹ/ was lost before it could modify the preceding vowel. Other instances of this phenomenon (some of which retained both spellings with different meanings) include cuss from curse, gash from garsh, bass (“fish”) from barse, bust from burst, passel from parcel; see :Category:English terms with assimilation of historic /ɹ/ for a more extensive list.


ass

On a recent episode of "The Justin Dunning Podcast," Starkel shared his thoughts on Martell, a former Ohio State quarterback, saying "he's ass my dude" in reference to Starkel.

2019 February 5, Alex Miller, “Former Texas A&M QB Nick Starkel breaks down old Twitter beef with Tate Martell”, in Dallas Morning News:

For some reason, the teenager thought it’d be a good idea to criticize Newton and say he's "ass" and that he’s "about to be poor" because he's a free agent.

2021 February 21, Thomas Carannante, “Patriots: Cam Newton getting disrespected by a teenager is everything that’s wrong with society”, in Fansided:

"You're so ass," Murray says to another player.

2021 October 28, Josh Weinfuss, “What we learned about Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray by watching him on Twitch”, in ESPN:


ass

That was one big ass fish!

That's an expensive ass car!

Synonym of -ass (used to intensify an adjective)


ass

Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of aß.


ass

aseite (diminutive)
ass (nominative singular)
ass (nominative plural)
asis (nominative plural)
ass (genitive singular)
ošu (genitive plural)
asei (dative singular)
asim (dative plural)
ašom (dative dialectal plural)
asi (accusative singular)
ass (accusative plural)
asis (accusative plural)
asi (instrumental singular)
asim (instrumental plural)
ašom (dialectal instrumental plural)
asī (locative singular)
asīs (locative plural)
ašuos (dialectal locative plural)
ass (singular vocative)
ass (plural vocative)
asis (plural vocative)

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *aśís. Cognates include Latvian ass and Lithuanian ašis.


ass

head

ass (feminine asūte, masculine plural asūts, feminine plural asūts)

asūte (feminine)
asūts (masculine plural)
asūts (feminine plural)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


ass

ratu ass

vagona ass

motocikla pakaļējā riteņa ass

axle (pin or spindle around which something, e.g. a wheel, rotates)

simetrijas, rotācijas ass

zemes griešanās ass

koordinātu asis

abscisu, ordinātu ass

(mathematics) axis (a line with certain important properties)

ass (nominative singular)
asis (nominative plural)
ass (genitive singular)
asu (genitive plural)
asij (dative singular)
asīm (dative plural)
asi (accusative singular)
asis (accusative plural)
asi (instrumental singular)
asīm (instrumental plural)
asī (locative singular)
asīs (locative plural)
ass (singular vocative)
asis (plural vocative)

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *aśís, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-. Originally an i/n-stem, it became an i-stem in Baltic.


ass

jūras ass

fathom (unit of length in the English system, approximately 1.83 meters)

old unit of length in the Russian system, equivalent to approximately 2.13 meters

divas asis malkas

old unit of volume for measuring wood, equivalent to approximately 2-4 cubic meters

From the same source as ass (“axle”), originally a unit of measurement corresponding to the length of a person's outstretched arms (compare Russian са́жень (sáženʹ, “old unit of measurement; length of outstretched arms”).


ass

ass nazis, zāģis, cirvis

ass īlens, ilknis

asa adata

asi ragi, ilkņi

sharp (such that it (blade, tool) can easily cut or pierce)

asas kalnu galotnes

ass zīmulis

asi elkoņi

asi vaigu kauli

asas burtu formas rokrakstā

angular, not rounded (of body parts; also of writing, drawing)

ass dadzis, paeglis, grīslis

asa zāle, nātre

(of plants) sharp (having little thorns or thorn-like growths, or having a sharp edge, capable of stinging)

asa sejas āda

ass linu dvielis

asa mērce

asa dūmu smaka

ass ož pēc hlora

ass vējš

asas sāpes

ass klepus

sharp, pungent, hot (which irritates the senses, creating a strong feeling or reaction)

asā balss

runāt asā tonī

ass sarkasms

ass pārmetumi

asa ķilda

asa mēle

harsh (voice, sound); sharp, biting, unsparing, fierce

asas kontūras

asi sejas vaibsti

zīmēt asām līnijām

asa problēma

(about problems, questions) clear, acute, of immediate importance

about problems; questions; about problems; questions

asa redze

ass prāts

asa uztvere

sharp (very well developed, very accurate)

head

ass (definite asais, comparative asāks, superlative visasākais, adverb asi)

asais (definite)
asāks (comparative)
visasākais (superlative)
asi (adverb)
ass (masculine nominative singular)
asi (masculine nominative plural)
asa (feminine nominative singular)
asas (feminine nominative plural)
asa (genitive masculine singular)
asu (genitive masculine plural)
asas (feminine genitive singular)
asu (feminine genitive plural)
asam (dative masculine singular)
asiem (dative masculine plural)
asai (dative feminine singular)
asām (dative feminine plural)
asu (accusative masculine singular)
asus (accusative masculine plural)
asu (accusative feminine singular)
asas (accusative feminine plural)
asu (instrumental masculine singular)
asiem (instrumental masculine plural)
asu (feminine instrumental singular)
asām (feminine instrumental plural)
asā (locative masculine singular)
asos (locative masculine plural)
asā (feminine locative singular)
asās (feminine locative plural)

From earlier *asus, from Proto-Baltic *ašus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed, edgy”). With an extra suffix *-ro, the same stem also yielded Proto-Balto-Slavic *aśras (“sharp”), whence Latvian dialectal asrs, as well as the Lithuanian cognate aštrùs, dialectal ašrùs. From this stem, there are also Latvian reflexes with ak rather than as (e.g., akmens (“stone”), akots (“awn”)), possibly a result of Proto-Indo-European dialectal variation. In Latvian, former u-stem adjectives like *asus were assimilated into other classes; *asus gave rise to both an o-stem and a yo-stem variant which later on became independent words, ass and ašs, with different semantic nuances (compare also, e.g., plats and plašs, or dobs and dobjš). Other cognates include Old Church Slavonic остръ (ostrŭ), Russian о́стрый (óstryj), Belarusian во́стры (vóstry), Ukrainian о́стрий (óstryj), го́стрий (hóstryj), Bulgarian о́стър (óstǎr), Czech ostrý, Polish ostry, Proto-Germanic *agjō (Old High German ecka, egga (“corner, edge, point, peak, blade”), German Ecke, Sanskrit अश्रिः (áśriḥ, “corner, edge, blade”), Ancient Greek ἀκή (akḗ, “point, tip”), ἄκρος (ákros, “sharp, pointed”), Latin ācer (“sharp”), aciēs (“sharpness, blade”).


ass

is (third-person singular present of sinn)


ass

From Old Irish ass, masculine and neuter singular form of a (“out of, from”), from Proto-Celtic *exs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“from”). Compare Irish as.


ass

assym (first-person singular)
assyd (second-person singular)
ass (masculine singular third-person)
assjee (feminine singular third-person)
assdooin (first-person plural)
assdiu (plural second-person)
assdaue (plural third-person)
assyms (emphatic first-person singular)
assyds (emphatic second-person singular)
assyn (emphatic masculine singular third-person)
assjeeish (emphatic feminine singular third-person)
assdooinyn (emphatic first-person plural)
assdiuish (emphatic plural second-person)
assdauesyn (emphatic plural third-person)


ass

out of him/it


ass

Alternative form of asshe (“burnt matter”)


ass

Språk er rart, ass

2016 November 23, Urd Vindenes, “«Språk er rart, ass»”, in Språknerderiet (overall work in Norwegian Bokmål), retrieved 2023-10-16:

(informal, greater Oslo area) A sound that marks the end of a sentence, and which otherwise doesn't mean anything.

assen (definite singular)
asser (indefinite plural)
assene (definite plural)
Ass (alternative)


ass

assen (definite singular)
assar (indefinite plural)
assane (definite plural)
Ass (alternative)


ass

ass (indefinite nominative singular)
ass (genitive indefinite singular)
asset (definite nominative singular)
assets (definite genitive singular)
ass (indefinite nominative plural)
ass (genitive indefinite plural)
assen (definite nominative plural)
assens (definite genitive plural)


ass

Coordinate term: rek (“registered”)

an insured letter; abbreviation of assurerad (försändelse).


ass

rif-noun

ass m (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵙⵙ, plural ussan)

ussan (plural)
ass (free-state singular)
ussan (free-state plural)
wass (construct singular)
wussan (construct plural)
as (alternative)


ass

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ipulo.