backside

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English

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Etymology

From back +‎ side.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbækˌsaɪd/
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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.

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Adjective

backside (not comparable)

  1. (board sports) Approaching an obstacle backward
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back,‎ side.

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Descendants

  • French: backside

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References

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

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English backside.

Pronunciation

Adjective

backside (plural backsides)

  1. (board sports) backside
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