backside

See also: back-side

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English

Etymology

From back +‎ side

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbækˌsaɪd/

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Noun

backside (plural backsides)

1. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly:
   1. The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (Britain dialectal, euphemistic) an outhouse.

      The building's backside faced an alley and was covered in grime and graffiti.

   2. (euphemistic) A person's buttocks.

      Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside.

      • c. 1500, Robin Hood, Bk. ii, Ch. iv, p. 236:

        With an arrowe so broad, He shott him into the backe-syde.

      • 1992 May 4, The Independent, p. 13:

        Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside.

   3. (obsolete) The back side of a page: a verso.
2. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
   • 1645, John Milton, Colasterion, page 26:

     ...to endorse him on the backside of posterity, not a golden, but a brazen Asse...

Synonyms

• (outhouse): backhouse (US, Canada); see also Thesaurus:bathroom
• (buttocks): rear; see also Thesaurus:buttocks
• (verso): See verso

Derived terms

• get off one's backside
• my backside
• sit on one's backside

Translations

back side of something

• Armenian: հետեւ (hetew)
• Assamese: পিছফাল (pisphal)
• Bulgarian: гръб (bg) (grǎb), задна страна (zadna strana)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後方 (zh), 后方 (zh) (hòufāng), 背面 (zh) (bèimiàn)

• Danish: bagside (da)
• Esperanto: dorsoflanko
• Finnish: takapuoli (fi)

• Icelandic: bakhlið n, bak (is) n
• Italian: lato posteriore m
• Japanese: 裏面 (ja) (rimen)
• Portuguese: traseira (pt) f
• Romanian: partea posterioară f, partea dorsală f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: baksida (sv)

buttocks

• Armenian: հետեւ (hetew), հետույք (hy) (hetuykʿ)
• Bulgarian: задник (bg) m (zádnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臀部 (zh) (túnbù), 臀 (zh) (tún), 屁股 (zh) (pìgu)

• Czech: zadek (cs) m
• Danish: numse (da), bagdel
• Finnish: takapuoli (fi)
• French: arrière (fr) m
• Friulian: cûl
• German: Hintern (de) m, Gesäß (de) n
• Icelandic: rass (is) m, rasskinnar f pl, sitjandi m
• Italian: sedere (it) m, di dietro

• Japanese: お尻 (ja) (おしり, o-shiri)
• Latvian: dibens
• Lithuanian: užpakalis (lt) m
• Portuguese: traseiro (pt) m
• Romanian: fund (ro)
• Russian: за́дница (ru) f (zádnica), зад (ru) m (zad)
• Scottish Gaelic: màs m, tòn f
• Serbo-Croatian: zadnjica (sh) f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: bak (sv) c
• Wiradhuri: bubul

References

• "backside, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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