Noun: buttock
| Singular | buttock |
| Plural | buttocks |
Sample Sentences
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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 […] (Hengist, King of Kent) [c. 1615–1620 (date written), Tho[mas] Middleton, The Mayor of Quinborough: A Comedy. […] [Hengist, King of Kent], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1661, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 61:]
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There came a blast of freezing wind that made Skell shrug himself against the oaken post on which the ship's buttock rested. [1925, Adventure, volume 54:]
Nouns inflected like buttock
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English buttok, probably from Old English buttuc (“end; end piece”; also, “short piece of land”). Attested with its current anatomical meaning since 1300. A diminutive form of what is presumably the Old English precursor of butt + -ock (diminutive suffix). See: Middle English Nouns '
buttok', Middle English Nouns '
buttok', Old English Nouns '
buttuc'.
Verbs referencing "buttock"
English Nouns
butt, Middle English Nouns
butte.