my ass

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Probably abbreviated from kiss my ass.

Interjection

my ass

1. (slang, vulgar) Indicates disapproval, disagreement, or disbelief, often with a tone of disregard, disdain, or disgust, referring to the buttocks.

   She'll use my money to buy a new car, my ass!

   You're his brother, my ass! You look nothing alike.

   • 1975, “Cell Block Tango”, in Fred Ebb (lyrics), John Kander (music), Chicago:

     And then I found out. "Single" he told me? Single, my ass! Not only was he married, oh, no, he had six wives!

Synonyms

• like hell, the hell; fiddlesticks, horsefeathers, pull the other one; see also Thesaurus:bullshit

Translations

Indicates disapproval, disagreement, or disbelief

• Catalan: els collons, i una merda
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 個屁／个屁 (go³ pei³), 個頭／个头, 條撚／条撚, 條春／条春, 條毛／条毛 (tiu⁴ mou⁴), 條鐵／条铁

  Mandarin: 個屁／个屁, 個毛／个毛 (ge máo), 個鳥／个鸟

• Danish: min bare røv
• Finnish: ja paskat, paskat, paskanmarjat (fi)
• French: mon cul (fr), et mon cul c’est du poulet
• German: von wegen, am Arsch (de)
• Hungarian: a francokat, a faszomat,
• Italian: stocazzo, un paio di palle, un cazzo (it)
• Macedonian: жими газов (žimi gazov), жими куров (žimi kurov)
• Polish: dupa Jasiu, srali muszki, będzie wiosna
• Portuguese: meu cu, teu cu
• Romanian: pe dracu'
• Serbo-Croatian: govno (sh) n
• Spanish: mi culo pl, y una mierda, ni qué niño muerto (es), los cojones, mis huevos
• Swedish: i helvete heller, fan heller, jo tjena
• Turkish: götüm (tr) (slang), ay götüm (slang)
• Vietnamese: cái lồn mẹ mày, cái con cặc, cái cục cứt, cái đầu mày

See also

• my arse
• my butt
• my eye
• my foot

Etymology 2

Pronoun

my ass (personal pronoun; the first person, singular)

1. (slang, vulgar) I; me; myself; oneself in the third person.

   My boss screwed up again, and of course it's my ass that has to deal with it.

   Now I gotta drag my ass to work. He says it's fine, but get real—you know it'd be *my* ass on the hook, if anything happened.

Usage notes

• Sometimes shortened to m'ass. See ass § Usage notes regarding the metonymy (and the potential reflexivity).

Coordinate terms

• your ass

Translations

I, myself

• Finnish: minä (fi), mä (fi), meikäläinen (fi)
• French: ma gueule (fr) (vulgar), ma pomme (fr) (familiar), ma tronche, bibi (fr)
• German: am Arsch! (de)

Anagrams

• Smays, SyAMs, Sysmä, amyss, massy