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backside en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈbækˌsaɪd/

Etymology

From back + side.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, qualifier:board sports) Approaching an obstacle backward.

Forms

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Antonyms

frontside

Descendants

backside

Translations (1)

fr backside (Translations)

backside en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbækˌsaɪd/

Etymology

From back + side.

Meanings

  1. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly
    • I gazed uncomprehendedly at the unfinished backside of the wall of the next room and wondered what had happened to my face. 1987 June 17, Vic Bubbett, “Rambling Reflections: When a ‘red telephone call’ comes in, it can change one’s life forever and ever”, in The Dothan Progress, volume 16, number 48, Dothan, Ala., →OCLC, page 3-A, column 3:
  2. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front ▸ The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
    • The building's backside faced an alley and was covered in grime and graffiti.
  3. (euphemistic) The back side of anything, the part opposite its front ▸ A person's buttocks.
    • Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside. 1992 May 4, The Independent, page 13:
    • Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside.
    • With an arrowe so broad, He shott him into the backe-syde. c. 1500, Robin Hood, Bk. ii, Ch. iv, p. 236:
  4. (obsolete) The back side of anything, the part opposite its front ▸ The back side of a page: a verso.
  5. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
    • ...to endorse him on the backside of posterity, not a golden, but a brazen Asse... 1645, John Milton, Colasterion, page 26:
  6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.

Forms

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Deriveds

kick up the backside · sit on one's backside · get off one's backside · my backside · think the sun shines out of someone's backside · pain in the backside · have a sixpenny bit up one's backside · backside throw · have a sixpenny bit up one’s backside

Synonyms

verso (verso) · rear (buttocks) · backhouse (outhouse)

Translations (64)

hy հետեւ (back side of something) · is rass (buttocks) · gd tòn (buttocks) · is bakhlið (back side of something) · de Hinterteil (back side of something) · eo dorsoflanko (back side of something) · fur cûl (buttocks) · cmn 後方 /后方 (back side of something) · da bagside (back side of something) · gd màs (buttocks) · es trasero (buttocks) · hi पिछवाड़ा (back side of something) · da numse (buttocks) · nrf driéthe (buttocks) · lv dibens (buttocks) · ja 裏面 (back side of something) · it di dietro (buttocks) · rif aɛrur (back side of something) · pt traseira (back side of something) · de Gesäß (buttocks) · is sitjandi (buttocks) · is rasskinnar (buttocks) · mr पार्श्वभाग (back side of something) · bg за́дник (buttocks) · de Hintern (buttocks) · hy հետեւ (buttocks) · fi takapuoli (back side of something) · as পিছফাল (back side of something) · mr मागची बाजू (back side of something) · ro fund (buttocks) · ja お尻 (buttocks) · cmn(buttocks) · mi angamate (back side of something) · fi takapuoli (buttocks) · mr मागील बाजू (back side of something) · cmn 臀部 (buttocks) · ro partea posterioară (back side of something) · ro partea dorsală (back side of something) · it lato posteriore (back side of something) · bg задна страна (back side of something) · hi नितंब (buttocks) · ru зад (buttocks) · es lado posterior (back side of something) · grc ὄρρος (buttocks) · fr arrière (buttocks) · grc πυγή (buttocks) · it sedere (buttocks) · mr पृष्ठभाग (back side of something) · sv bak (buttocks) · da bagdel (buttocks) · ru за́дница (buttocks) · is bak (back side of something) · pt traseiro (buttocks) · hi कूल्हा (buttocks) · bg гръб (back side of something) · hy հետույք (buttocks) · cs zadek (buttocks) · wrh bubul (buttocks) · lt užpakalis (buttocks) · cmn 屁股 (buttocks) · sh zadnjica (buttocks) · eo pugo (buttocks) · cmn 背面 (back side of something) · sv baksida (back side of something)