backside

See also: back-side

English

Alternative forms

• back-side, back side

Etymology

From back +‎ side.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbækˌsaɪd/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

backside (plural backsides)

1. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly:
   • 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:

     I gazed uncomprehendedly at the unfinished backside of the wall of the next room and wondered what had happened to my face.

   1. 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.

   2. (euphemistic) A person's buttocks.

      Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside.

      • c. 1500, Robin Hood, Bk. ii, Ch. iv, p. 236:

        With an arrowe so broad, He shott him into the backe-syde.

      • 1992 May 4, The Independent, page 13:

        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.

   3. (obsolete) The back side of a page: a verso.
2. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
   • 1645, John Milton, Colasterion, page 26:

     ...to endorse him on the backside of posterity, not a golden, but a brazen Asse...

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back,‎ side.

Synonyms

• (outhouse): backhouse (US, Canada); see also Thesaurus:outhouse
• (buttocks): rear; see also Thesaurus:buttocks
• (verso): See verso

Derived terms

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

Translations

back side of something

Armenian: հետեւ (hy) (hetew) Assamese: পিছফাল (pisphal) Bulgarian: гръб (bg) (grǎb), задна страна (zadna strana) Chinese: Mandarin: 後方 / 后方 (zh) (hòufāng), 背面 (zh) (bèimiàn) Danish: bagside (da) Esperanto: dorsoflanko Finnish: takapuoli (fi) German: Hinterteil (de) n Hindi: पिछवाड़ा (hi) m (pichvāṛā) Icelandic: bakhlið n, bak (is) n Italian: lato posteriore m Japanese: 裏面 (ja) (rimen) Maori: angamate Marathi: मागील बाजू f (māgīl bājū), पृष्ठभाग m (pruṣṭhabhāg), पार्श्वभाग m (pārśvabhāg), मागची बाजू f (māgcī bājū) Portuguese: traseira (pt) f Romanian: partea posterioară f, partea dorsală f Spanish: lado posterior m Swedish: baksida (sv) Tarifit: aɛrur m

buttocks

Armenian: հետեւ (hy) (hetew), հետույք (hy) (hetuykʻ) Bulgarian: за́дник (bg) m (zádnik) Chinese: Mandarin: 臀部 (zh) (túnbù), 臀 (zh) (tún), 屁股 (zh) (pìgu) Czech: zadek (cs) m Danish: numse (da), bagdel Esperanto: pugo (eo) Finnish: takapuoli (fi) French: arrière (fr) m Friulian: cûl German: Hintern (de) m, Gesäß (de) n Greek: Ancient: πυγή f (pugḗ), (vulgar) ὄρρος m (órrhos) Hindi: नितंब (hi) m (nitamb), कूल्हा (hi) m (kūlhā) Icelandic: rass (is) m, rasskinnar f pl, sitjandi m Italian: sedere (it) m, di dietro Japanese: お尻 (ja) (おしり, o-shiri) Latvian: dibens (lv) Lithuanian: užpakalis (lt) m Norman: driéthe m (Jersey) Portuguese: traseiro (pt) m Romanian: fund (ro) Russian: за́дница (ru) f (zádnica), зад (ru) m (zad) Scottish Gaelic: màs m, tòn f Serbo-Croatian: zadnjica (sh) f Spanish: trasero (es) Swedish: bak (sv) c Wiradjuri: bubul

Adjective

backside (not comparable)

1. (board sports) Approaching an obstacle backward.

Antonyms

• frontside

Descendants

• French: backside

Translations

Translations

French: backside (fr)

References

• "backside, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• diebacks, dies back

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English backside.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bak.sajd/

Adjective

backside (plural backsides)

1. (board sports) backside