bottom – English noun declension

English noun forms of bottom

Noun: bottom
Singularbottom
Pluralbottoms

Sample Sentences

  • barrels with the bottoms knocked out [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • a great ship’s kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out [1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 19, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:]
  • At the bottom of the staircase I stood and stared at the worn steps, and Ayesha, turning, saw me. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
  • No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. [1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:]
  • Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.
  • The Red Sox are at the bottom again.
  • There’s a hole in her pyjama bottoms.
  • In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%. [2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian:]
  • bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs
  • a soda and a bottom of brandy
  • single-bottom plow
  • three-bottom plow
  • Near-synonym: fundus (anatomical)
  • There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.
  • I walked to the bottom of the street.
  • There was a pit in the bottom of my stomach.
  • get to the bottom of it
  • Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the bottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
  • Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?
  • The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills. [1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • the bottoms and the high grounds [1812, Amos Stoddard, Sketches of Louisiana:]
  • Calvin, if you shoot that paper clip at me, I'll get your bottom hauled to the principal's office so fast you'll think you were in a time warp!! [1986 April 10, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):]
  • In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode / The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God [1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...] [1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:]
  • My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
  • Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. [1773 November 8, Bancroft, Boston Post-Boy:]
  • James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.
  • Since what I wanted to do was be a bottom, a masochist, I had to learn that you could do it and be safe, that you could do it and not sign your life away, that you could do it by agreement, and that it was still fun. [1981 August 15, Nancy Wechsler, Gayle Rubin, Pat Califia, “Sadomasochism: Fears, Facts, Fantasies”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 6:]
  • lack bottom
  • This was why Dee had always ridden a buckskin; a man following his kind of trails needed a horse with bottom, and a line-back like this one never wore out. [2017, Les Savage, The Teton Bunch: A Western Trio:]
  • the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished. [1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:]
  • Edward Hoby of Bisham in Berkshire, Esq; Or, a Fess, Sable, between three Hobby-Hawks, proper; otherwise, Azure, three Bottoms in Fess, Gules. [1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 207:]
  • BOTTOM, a trundle or quill of gold thread. See TRUNDLE. Argent three bottoms, in fess gules, the thread or; name, Hoby, of Badland. [1866, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry ... Eighteenth edition. Revised and corrected by J. R. Planché, page 99:]
  • [...] three “bottoms or clewes” (elsewhere called “spindles” or “fusils upon slippers”) in fesse gules threaded or, for Badlond; [1873, Henry Sydney Grazebrook, The Heraldry of Worcestershire, page 285:]

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *bʰudʰmḗn
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-?
5. Proto-Indo-European *-mḗn
6. Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn
7. Proto-Germanic *butmaz
8. Proto-West Germanic *botm
9. Old English botm
10. Middle English botme
11. English bottom
12. From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz (“bottom; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”).
13. Cognates
14. Cognate with Yola bothom, bottom (“bottom”), Saterland Frisian Boudem (“floor; ground”), West Frisian boaiem (“floor; ground”), Dutch bodem, boom, boôm (“bottom; ground, soil”), German Boden (“floor; ground; soil”), Limburgish baom (“bottom; ground, soil”), Luxembourgish Buedem (“bottom; earth, soil”), Vilamovian bödum (“bottom; ground”), Danish bund (“bottom”), Elfdalian buottn (“bottom”), Faroese botnur (“bottom”), Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk botn (“bottom”), Norwegian Bokmål botn, bunn (“bottom”), Swedish botten (“bottom”); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic bonn (“base, bottom; sole (of foot)”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar; the bottom of the sea; butt of a tree”), Albanian buzë (“rocky chasm”), Armenian անդունդ (andund), անդունդք (andundkʻ, “abyss, chasm”), Northern Kurdish bin (“bottom”), Persian بن (bon, “bottom”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”).
15. The noun sense “posterior of a person” is first attested in 1794; the verb sense “to reach the bottom of” is first attested in 1808. The term bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is first attested in 1882. See: Old English Nouns 'botm,bodan', Dutch Nouns 'bodem', German Nouns 'Boden', Danish Nouns 'bund', Faroese Nouns 'botnur', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'botn', Swedish Nouns 'botten', Latin Nouns 'fundus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πυθμήν'.

Verbs referencing "bottom"

German Nouns Boden, Ancient Greek Nouns πυθμήν, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns botn.