buttock — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum, and the top of the legs.

   Usage

   • plural-normally

   Synonyms

   asscheekcheek

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […]

2. The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.

   Examples

   There came a blast of freezing wind that made Skell shrug himself against the oaken post on which the ship's buttock rested.

Noun

1. either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump

   Synonyms

   cheek

   Broader terms

   body part