assback
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editassback (plural assbacks)
- The back of a donkey.
- 1691, uncredited translators, Plutarch’s Morals, Part 2, London: T. Sawbridge et al., p. 224,[1]
- […] they took her and set her on Ass-back, and led her round about the City,
- 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy[2], London: R. Baldwin, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 74:
- The way of riding most used in this place is on assback.
- 1846, Richard Ford, chapter 7, in Gatherings from Spain,[3], London: John Murray, page 74:
- Riding on assback was accounted a disgrace and a degradation to the Gothic hidalgo,
- 1994, Robert Kelly, “In Irish America” in Queen of Terrors, Kingston, NY: McPherson, p. 56,[4]
- […] tune soft as the assback my Savior rode from Jericho to Caerleon.
- 1691, uncredited translators, Plutarch’s Morals, Part 2, London: T. Sawbridge et al., p. 224,[1]
Adverb
editassback (not comparable)
- On the back of a donkey.
- 1850, George Walker, “A Game of Chess with Napoleon”, in Chess and Chess-Players[5], London: Charles J. Skeet, page 260:
- […] I should have thought a great chief had something better to do than to play chess either horseback or assback.
- 1970, Mark Perlberg, “Hiroshige”, in The Burning Field,[6], New York: William Morrow, page 7:
- That samurai is surely fast alive
In his hunched and silhouetted dozing, assback,
In the blur of fog,