behind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd/
ipa: /bəˈhaɪnd/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /beˈhəɪn/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /beˈhoɪn/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /beˈhaɪn/
ipa: /ˈbiːˌhaɪnd/
ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd/
ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd/
ipa: /bəˈhaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: behinds
form: ahind
form: behine
Etymology: From Middle English behinde, behinden, from Old English behindan (“on the back side of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihindan, *bihindini (“on the back side of, in the rear of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bi- + *hindō (“the hind side, back part”), equivalent to be- + hind. Compare Old Saxon bihindan (“behind”, adverb), Middle High German behinter (“behind; back”).
Senses: examples: text: This part fits under the behind of the vehicle.
text: She sneaked up on me from behind.
glosses: The rear, back-end.
examples: text: I was stung on the behind by a wasp.
text: "So the catheter didn't have anything to do with keeping him from touching himself?" I don't usually go in for euphemisms, but Fineg is a man who says "behind", as in "I have a picture where he bit me in the behind." The catheter, it turns out, was in the chimp's femoral artery (to monitor blood pressure), not his urethra.
ref: 2010, Mary Roach, “One Furry Step for Mankind: The Strange Careers of Ham and Enos”, in Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 158:
text: "The dog got excited, was jumping around inside the boat and then it jumped on the gun. It went off, shooting the [decoy setter] in the buttocks," Box Elder County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Kevin Potter told the Salt Lake Tribune. Twenty-seven rounds of birdshot were removed from the man's behind after the accident.
ref: 2011 December 12, Alyssa Newcomb, “Sit, Stay, Aim, Fire. Dog Shoots Another Hunter”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2021:
glosses: The buttocks, bottom, butt.
examples: text: A roar from ten thousand throats go up,
For we've kicked another behind.
ref: 1880, “The Opening Ball”, in G. Lehmann, editor, Comic Australian Verse, 1975, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, Sydney University Press, published 1985, →ISBN:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A one-point score.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The catcher.
glosses: In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from behind (all parts of speech)
word: behind bars
sense: Terms derived from behind (all parts of speech)
word: behind closed doors
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word: behindhand
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word: behind in the count
sense: Terms derived from behind (all parts of speech)
word: behind somebody's back
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word: behind the arc
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word: behind the bit
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word: behind the counter
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word: behind the eight-ball
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word: behind the scenes
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word: behind the wheel
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word: caught behind
sense: Terms derived from behind (all parts of speech)
word: come from behind
sense: Terms derived from behind (all parts of speech)
word: drop behind
sense: Terms derived from behind (all parts of speech)
word: fall behind
sense: Terms derived from behind (all parts of speech)
word: get behind
sense: Terms derived from behind (all parts of speech)
word: get thee behind me
sense: Terms derived from behind (all parts of speech)
word: leave behind
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word: rushed behind
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word: stay behind
sense: Terms derived from behind (all parts of speech)
word: wet behind the ears
Related terms: hind
hiney