Dictionary

backie en · NOUN

Etymology

From back + -ie.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) A ride on the back of a bicycle or motorbike.
2. A photo taken of iconic location with the back of a shirt advert visible.
3. (childish, diminutive, form-of, rare) Diminutive of back (“rear of the body”).
   form of back
   • Joan—Old Fatty Witch, please, please, let us take Peter out of the Pot! Witch—Not by the hump on my backie, back, back. Before moon-up you will all be Giddy-Giddy Gumps. 1924 October, Meta H. Kenan, “[October Recitations, Songs and Plays] Peter-in-the-Pot: A Halloween Play”, in Normal Instructor and Primary Plans, volume XXXIII, number 10, Dansville, N.Y.: F. A. Owen Publishing Company, →OCLC, act II, page 68, column 4:
   • BTW, you forgot your widdle wubber duckie last week when you asked me to skwub your backie in the tubbie. 2005 September 28, CME, quoting Kate, “Kid is fussy”, in alt.support.single-parents (Usenet), archived from the original on 18 Apr 2026:
   • I’VE HURT MY BACKIE! BUT THE PAIN IS WAINING 1988, “Patrons”, in Vikki Smith, editor, Echo 1988, Holbrook, Mass.: Holbrook Junior-Senior High School, pages 133–134:
   • Her Daddy says jail would be good for me, I’d see I can’t survive on my own and come home to her and our curlyhead, who still says every night in the bathtub, “Why isn’t Daddy here to scrub my backie?” 2012, Jim Quinn, “Wheel of Fortune”, in Waiting for the Wars to End: Two Stories, Boston, Mass.: Pressed Wafer, →ISBN, page 13:
   • Very reverently he closed his eyes, and putting his hands together said the familiar words of the Lord[’]s Prayer; the sobs ceased, and he was himself again, very penitent, and taking up the Sister’s cross which always hung at her side, he kissed it, and said, “Will Jesus make my backie straight, Sister?” 1904, Our Work at Home and Abroad, volume XXIX, London, →OCLC, page 194, column 2:

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Synonyms

seatie