arse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːs/
ipa: /ɐːs/
ipa: /aɹs/
ipa: /äːɹs/
ipa: /ɑɹs/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: arses
form: ass
Etymology: From Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Dutch aars and German Arsch), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁órsos (“backside, buttocks”).
Senses: examples: text: As the novel progresses, he is shot in the hand with his own gun, shot in the arse with someone else's and lacerated by a prosthetic weed trimmer.
ref: 2011 March 12, James Smart, The Guardian:
text: No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 131:
text: Or to put it in the more colourful language of our Prime Minister: "The secret to improving rail transport, in my view, is you need to find the right arse to kick." Unfortunately, since the abolition of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) in 2005, the DfT has ostensibly been in direct control of railway policy setting, and this has meant that the only arse the government has been able to kick is its own.
ref: 2020 September 9, Jason Chamberlain, “The growing likelihood of a 'different type of railway'”, in Rail, page 45:
synonyms: word: 'tocks
word: arse
word: arse cheeks
word: ass
word: ass cheeks
word: back
word: backside
word: batty
word: behind
word: blessed assurance
word: booty
word: botty
word: bottom
word: bum
word: bum cheeks
word: buns
word: butt
word: butt cheeks
word: buttocks
word: caboose
word: cheeks
word: derriere
word: fanny
word: fourth point of contact
word: gluteus maximus
word: glutes
word: gooseberry-grinder
word: gyatt
raw_tags: used jokingly by generation alpha preteens
word: heinie
word: hiney
word: hinderlin
word: hurdies
word: jacksie
word: keester
word: keister
word: moon
word: moneymaker
word: nates
word: nether cheeks
word: patootie
word: peach
word: posterior
word: rear
word: rear end
word: rump
word: seat
word: sit upon
word: tail
word: toches
word: tush
word: tushie
word: a-hole
word: anus
word: arsehole
word: arse
word: asscunt
word: asshole
word: asspussy
word: ass
word: back alley
word: back door
word: back passage
word: balloon knot
word: batty
word: batty hole
word: bootyhole
word: bottom
word: brown eye
word: browneye
word: bumhole
word: bum
word: bung-hole
word: bunghole
word: bungus
word: butthole
word: buttonhole
word: chocolate channel
word: chocolate starfish
word: chuff
word: cinnamon ring
word: clacka
word: clacker
word: cornhole
word: craphole
word: cumhole
word: dinger
word: ding
word: dock
word: dookie hole
word: dung funnel
word: exit hole
word: fartbox
word: farthole
word: fourth point of contact
word: freckle
word: fuckhole
word: fudge tunnel
word: fundament
word: Gary Glitter
word: gump stump
word: Hershey highway
word: jacksie
word: jacksy
word: keister
word: leather cheerio
word: love hole
word: other end
word: poop chute
word: pooper
word: poophole
word: rectum
word: ringpiece
word: rosebud
word: rusty sheriff's badge
word: shithole
word: shitter
word: sluthole
word: smelly freckle
word: starfish
word: stinkhole
word: tewel
word: tooter
word: tradesman's entrance
word: turd cutter
word: vent
word: wazoo
word: where the sun don't shine
word: windpipe
word: ying-yang
glosses: The buttocks or more specifically, the anus.
examples: text: “You're an arse,” Ellen said. ¶ “Please? You must like something about me …?” ¶ “I do. You're an arse. I just told you that. I feel comfy with you, because you're such an arse.”
ref: 2007, Martin Harrison, The Judgement of Paris, page 282:
text: He looked at me, was just about to call me an arse, when I told him, “You throw it too hard. Try and think of the javelin hitting the target before you throw it. Let it all go through your mind first, see it, feel it, then throw it.” ¶ “Good advice, you arse,” he said and tried again.
ref: 2007, L. A. Wilson, The Silurian: Book One: The Fox and the Bear, page 103:
text: Felnigg. What a suppurating arse. Look at him. Arse.
ref: 2011, Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes, unnumbered page:
glosses: A stupid, pompous, arrogant, mean or despicable person.
glosses: Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
glosses: A person; the self; (reflexively) oneself or one's person, chiefly their body; (by extension) one's personal safety, or figuratively one's job, prospects, etc.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from arse (noun)
word: arse about face
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word: arse about tit
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word: arse antlers
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word: arse bandit
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word: arse biscuit
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word: arsebreath
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word: arse breath
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word: arsecheek
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word: arse cheeks
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word: arsecheeks
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word: arseclown
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word: arse crack
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word: arse-crack
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word: arsecunt
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word: arse end
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word: arse end of nowhere
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word: arseface
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word: arse-fuck
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word: arsefucker
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word: arseful
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word: arse has gone clean out of 'er
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word: arse has gone out of 'er
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word: arse has gone right out of 'er
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word: arsehat
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word: arsehead
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word: arsehole
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word: arseholedom
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word: arseholery
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word: arseholic
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word: arsehood
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word: arse in a sling
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word: arse is clean out of 'er
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word: arse is gone right out of 'er
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word: arse is out of 'er
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word: arse is right out of 'er
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word: arse-kisser
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word: arseless
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word: arse-licker
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word: arse licker
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word: arse-licking
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word: arse lift
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word: arse like a Japanese flag
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word: arseling
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word: arseload
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word: arselong
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word: arseman
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word: arsemonkey
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word: arsemunch
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word: arsemuncher
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word: arseness
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word: arse over head
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word: arse over tip
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word: arse over tit
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word: arsesmart
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word: arse-up
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word: arse-wash
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word: arsewash
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word: arsewipe
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word: arsey
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word: arsy
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word: arsing
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word: arsle
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word: ask my arse
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word: badarse
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word: barearse
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word: bare-arse
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word: barse
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word: beat one's arse
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word: beat someone's arse
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word: bet one's arse
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word: bite in the arse
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word: blow smoke up someone's arse
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word: bother one's arse
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word: bottle-arse
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word: bring one's arse to an anchor
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word: bring one's arse to anchor
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word: bust one's arse
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word: cake and arse party
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word: cake-and-arse party
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word: candy-arse
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word: cauldron arse
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word: cheap-arse Tuesday
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word: clever arse
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word: cold as a well-digger's arse
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word: cottage cheese arse
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word: could eat the arse out of a low flying duck
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word: da arse is gone right out of 'er
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word: die in the arse
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word: die on one's arse
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word: duck-arsed
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word: duck's arse
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word: dumbarse
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word: face like a slapped arse
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word: face like a smacked arse
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word: fart-arse
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word: get one's arse in gear
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word: give a rat's arse
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word: gnat's arse
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word: grassy arse
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word: half-arse
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word: half-arsed
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word: hang an arse
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word: hanging out of one's arse
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word: hard-arse
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word: in a pig's arse
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word: jackarse
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word: kick-arse
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word: kick arse
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word: kick arse and take names
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word: kick someone's arse
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word: kick up the arse
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word: kiss arse
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word: kiss my arse
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word: kiss someone's arse
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word: know one's arse from one's elbow
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word: lardarse
sense: Terms derived from arse (noun)
word: lazy-arse
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word: my arse
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word: not hit a cow's arse with a banjo
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word: one's arse off
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word: open-arse
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word: pain in one's arse
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word: pain in the arse
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word: pop a cap in someone's arse
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word: pull out of one's arse
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word: short-arse
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word: shortarse
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word: sit on one's arse
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word: smart arse
sense: Terms derived from arse (noun)
word: smart-arse
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word: someone's arse off
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word: suck arse
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word: take it up the arse
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word: talk out of one's arse
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word: the arse
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word: the law is an arse
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word: think the sun shines out of someone's arse
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word: tight-arse
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word: tight as a duck's arse
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word: two cheeks of the same arse
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word: up the arse
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word: whip-arse
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word: work someone's arse off
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word: your arse