backside — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

   Esempi

   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.

   Esempi

   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.

   Uso

   • euphemistic

   Esempi

   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.

   Altri esempi (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.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

5. The reverse or opposite of anything.

   Uso

   • figurato

   Esempi

   ...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.

Aggettivo

1. Approaching an obstacle backward.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

Sostantivo

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

   Sinonimi

   rearback end

   Termini più generali

   sideface

   Esempi

   his room was toward the rear of the hotel

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

   Sinonimi

   buttocksnatesarsebuttbumbunscanfundamenthindquartershind endkeisterposteriorpratrearrear endrumpsternseattailtail endtooshietushbottombehindderrierefannyass

   Termini più generali

   body part

   Esempi

   he deserves a good kick in the butt

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