backside — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly

   Beispiele

   I gazed uncomprehendedly at the unfinished backside of the wall of the next room and wondered what had happened to my face.

2. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.

   Beispiele

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

3. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front A person's buttocks.

   Gebrauch

   • euphemistic

   Beispiele

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

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

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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.

4. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front The back side of a page: a verso.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch

5. The reverse or opposite of anything.

   Gebrauch

   • übertragen

   Beispiele

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

6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.

Adjektiv

1. Approaching an obstacle backward.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

Substantiv

1. the side of an object that is opposite its front

   Synonyme

   rearback end

   Oberbegriffe

   sideface

   Beispiele

   his room was toward the rear of the hotel

2. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

   Synonyme

   buttocksnatesarsebuttbumbunscanfundamenthindquartershind endkeisterposteriorpratrearrear endrumpsternseattailtail endtooshietushbottombehindderrierefannyass

   Oberbegriffe

   body part

   Beispiele

   he deserves a good kick in the butt

   are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?