Butt Synonyms

**asasasas** · 04-25-2010

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