Butt SynonymsButt Synonyms
Ah the butt. It goes by many names, but it smells just as sweet (eat it Shakespeare). Here is a list of butt synonyms, some with etymology.
A--: first attested 1860 in nautical slang, in popular use from 1930; chiefly U.S
Arse
Badonkadonk
Batty (Jamaican slang)
Behind: Euphemistic meaning "backside of a person" is from 1786.
Bench warmer
Boem (pronounced as "boom")
Booty: 1920s, black slang.
Bottom: Meaning "posterior of a man" is from 1794.
Bum: "Buttocks," late 14c.
Buns: The first record of buns in the sense of "male buttocks" is from 1960s.
Butt: In sense of "human posterior" it is recorded from mid-15c.
Buttocks: late 13c., probably related to O.E. buttuc "end, short piece of land."
Caboose
Cheeks: "The buttocks," c.1600.
Crack in the back
Derriere: 1774, from French derrière "back part, rear," originally an adv., "behind," from Latin deretro, from Latin de "from" + retro "back."
Fanny: "Buttocks," 1920, American English, from earlier British meaning "vulva" (1879), perhaps from the name of John Cleland's heroine in the scandalous novel "Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (1748). The genital sense is still the primary one outside U.S., but is not current in American English, which can have consequences when U.S. TV programs and movies air in Britain.
Gat
Gluteus maximus
Hind-end
Hiney
Hurdies (British slang)
Jacksie (British slang)
Keister: "buttocks," 1931, perhaps transferred from underworld meaning "safe, strongbox" (1914), earlier "a burglar's toolkit that can be locked" (1881).
Kont
Moon: The meaning "to flash the buttocks" is first recorded 1968, U.S. student slang, from moon n.) "buttocks" (1756), "probably from the idea of pale circularity."
Patootie
Poep (like "poop")
Poop chute
Pooper
Posterior
Rear
Rump: "Hind-quarters, buttocks of an animal," c.1440, from a Scandanavian. Source (cf. Danish, Norwegian rumpe, Swedish rumpa).
Seat warmer
South end of a north bound horse
Tail
Taillights
Tochus
Trunk
Tush: "Backside, buttocks," 1962, an abbreviation of tochus (1914), from Yiddish tokhes, from Hebrew tahat "beneath."
Tushey
Whoopie cakes
A--: first attested 1860 in nautical slang, in popular use from 1930; chiefly U.S
Arse
Badonkadonk
Batty (Jamaican slang)
Behind: Euphemistic meaning "backside of a person" is from 1786.
Bench warmer
Boem (pronounced as "boom")
Booty: 1920s, black slang.
Bottom: Meaning "posterior of a man" is from 1794.
Bum: "Buttocks," late 14c.
Buns: The first record of buns in the sense of "male buttocks" is from 1960s.
Butt: In sense of "human posterior" it is recorded from mid-15c.
Buttocks: late 13c., probably related to O.E. buttuc "end, short piece of land."
Caboose
Cheeks: "The buttocks," c.1600.
Crack in the back
Derriere: 1774, from French derrière "back part, rear," originally an adv., "behind," from Latin deretro, from Latin de "from" + retro "back."
Fanny: "Buttocks," 1920, American English, from earlier British meaning "vulva" (1879), perhaps from the name of John Cleland's heroine in the scandalous novel "Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (1748). The genital sense is still the primary one outside U.S., but is not current in American English, which can have consequences when U.S. TV programs and movies air in Britain.
Gat
Gluteus maximus
Hind-end
Hiney
Hurdies (British slang)
Jacksie (British slang)
Keister: "buttocks," 1931, perhaps transferred from underworld meaning "safe, strongbox" (1914), earlier "a burglar's toolkit that can be locked" (1881).
Kont
Moon: The meaning "to flash the buttocks" is first recorded 1968, U.S. student slang, from moon n.) "buttocks" (1756), "probably from the idea of pale circularity."
Patootie
Poep (like "poop")
Poop chute
Pooper
Posterior
Rear
Rump: "Hind-quarters, buttocks of an animal," c.1440, from a Scandanavian. Source (cf. Danish, Norwegian rumpe, Swedish rumpa).
Seat warmer
South end of a north bound horse
Tail
Taillights
Tochus
Trunk
Tush: "Backside, buttocks," 1962, an abbreviation of tochus (1914), from Yiddish tokhes, from Hebrew tahat "beneath."
Tushey
Whoopie cakes
Originally Posted by Snape
