See arse in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
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{
"lang": "Sranan Tongo",
"lang_code": "srn",
"word": "lasi"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "ars"
},
"expansion": "Middle English ars",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "ærs"
},
"expansion": "Old English ærs",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*ars"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *ars",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*arsaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *arsaz",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "aars"
},
"expansion": "Dutch aars",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Arsch"
},
"expansion": "German Arsch",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₁órsos",
"4": "",
"5": "backside, buttocks"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₁órsos (“backside, buttocks”)",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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”).",
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{
"form": "arses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ass",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"US"
]
}
],
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{
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"expansion": "arse (plural arses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
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{
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"name": "Commonwealth English",
"parents": [],
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},
{
"_dis": "11 24 25 28 8 4",
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Buttocks",
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"source": "w+disamb"
}
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{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse about face"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse about tit"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse antlers"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse bandit"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse biscuit"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsebreath"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse breath"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsecheek"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse cheeks"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsecheeks"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arseclown"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse-crack"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse crack"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsecunt"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse end"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse end of nowhere"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arseface"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse-fuck"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arsefucker"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arseful"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsehat"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arsehead"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsehole"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arseholedom"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arseholery"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arseholic"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsehood"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse in a sling"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse is right out of 'er"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse-kisser"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arseless"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arse-licker"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse licker"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arse-licking"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse lift"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse like a Japanese flag"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arseling"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arseload"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arselong"
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{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arseman"
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{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arsemonkey"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arsemunch"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arsemuncher"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arseness"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arse over head"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arse over tip"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "arse over tit"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsesmart"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse-up"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsewash"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arse-wash"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsewipe"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsey"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsy"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsing"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "arsle"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "ask my arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "badarse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "bare-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
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"word": "barearse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "barse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "beat one's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "beat someone's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "bet one's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "bite in the arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "blow smoke up someone's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "bother one's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "bottle-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "bring one's arse to an anchor"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "bring one's arse to anchor"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "bust one's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "cake and arse party"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "cake-and-arse party"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "candy-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "care a rat's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "cauldron arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "cheap-arse Tuesday"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "clever arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "cold as a well-digger's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "cottage cheese arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "could eat the arse out of a low flying duck"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "da arse is gone right out of 'er"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "die in the arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "die on one's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "duck-arsed"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "duck's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "dumbarse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "face like a slapped arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "face like a smacked arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "fart-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "get one's arse in gear"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "give a rat's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "gnat's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "grassy arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "half-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "half-arsed"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "hang an arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "hanging out of one's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "hard-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "in a pig's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "jackarse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "kick arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "kick-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "kick arse and take names"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "kick someone's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "kick up the arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "kiss arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "kiss my arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "kiss someone's arse"
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{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "know one's arse from one's elbow"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "lardarse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "lazy-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "my arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "not hit a cow's arse with a banjo"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "one's arse off"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "open-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "pain in one's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "pain in the arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "pop a cap in someone's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "pull out of one's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "shortarse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "short-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "sit on one's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "smart arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "smart-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "someone's arse off"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "suck arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "take it up the arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "talk out of one's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "the arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "the arse has gone clean out of 'er"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "the arse has gone out of 'er"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "the arse has gone right out of 'er"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "the arse is clean out of 'er"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "the arse is gone right out of 'er"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "the arse is out of 'er"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "the law is an arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "think the sun shines out of someone's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "tight-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "tight as a duck's arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "two cheeks of the same arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "up the arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "whip-arse"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "work someone's arse off"
},
{
"_dis1": "45 21 14 20",
"sense": "Terms derived from arse (noun)",
"word": "your arse"
}
],
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"ref": "2011 March 12, James Smart, The Guardian:",
"text": "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.",
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},
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"ref": "2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 131:",
"text": "No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse.",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "2020 September 9, Jason Chamberlain, “The growing likelihood of a 'different type of railway'”, in Rail, page 45:",
"text": "Or to put it in the more colourful language of our Prime Minister: \"The secret to improving rail transport, in my view, is you need to find the right arse to kick.\" Unfortunately, since the abolition of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) in 2005, the DfT has ostensibly been in direct control of railway policy setting, and this has meant that the only arse the government has been able to kick is its own.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The buttocks or more specifically, the anus."
],
"id": "en-arse-en-noun-7Wln526j",
"links": [
[
"buttock",
"buttock"
],
[
"anus",
"anus"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Commonwealth, now vulgar) The buttocks or more specifically, the anus."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:buttocks",
"word": "'tocks"
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"Scotland"
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{
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"Scotland"
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"US"
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