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ASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slang for sexual intercourse
Synonyms:
ass; fuck; fucking; nookie; nooky; piece of ass; piece of tail; roll in the hay; screw; screwing; shag; shtup
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ass" is a kind of...):
carnal knowledge; coition; coitus; copulation; intercourse; relation; sex act; sexual congress; sexual intercourse; sexual relation (sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur)
Domain usage:
dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)
argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ass" is a kind of...):
equid; equine (hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ass"):
domestic ass; donkey; Equus asinus (domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn)
jennet; jenny; jenny ass (female donkey)
wild ass (any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa)
Holonyms ("ass" is a member of...):
Equus; genus Equus (type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Example:
are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
Synonyms:
arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; butt; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; stern; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ass" is a kind of...):
body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
Holonyms ("ass" is a part of...):
body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A pompous fool
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ass" is a kind of...):
fool; muggins; sap; saphead; tomfool (a person who lacks good judgment)
Context examples:
He brought out of the Yahoos’ kennel a piece of ass’s flesh; but it smelt so offensively that I turned from it with loathing: he then threw it to the Yahoo, by whom it was greedily devoured.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“And by the way, what an ass you must have thought me, not to know that this was a back way to Dr. Jekyll’s! It was partly your own fault that I found it out, even when I did.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Yes,” said the ass, “if we could only get in”; so they consulted together how they should contrive to get the robbers out; and at last they hit upon a plan.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“Now, captain,” said the squire, “you were right, and I was wrong. I own myself an ass, and I await your orders.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Here we entered, and I saw three of those detestable creatures, which I first met after my landing, feeding upon roots, and the flesh of some animals, which I afterwards found to be that of asses and dogs, and now and then a cow, dead by accident or disease.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Pompous old ass!
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The ass, being the tallest of the company, marched up to the window and peeped in.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“That comes—as you call it—of being arrant asses,” retorted the doctor, “and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough. I think it most probable—though of course it's only an opinion—that you'll all have the deuce to pay before you get that malaria out of your systems. Camp in a bog, would you? Silver, I'm surprised at you. You're less of a fool than many, take you all round; but you don't appear to me to have the rudiments of a notion of the rules of health.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He had heard, indeed, some curious Houyhnhnms observe, that in most herds there was a sort of ruling Yahoo (as among us there is generally some leading or principal stag in a park), who was always more deformed in body, and mischievous in disposition, than any of the rest; that this leader had usually a favourite as like himself as he could get, whose employment was to lick his master’s feet and posteriors, and drive the female Yahoos to his kennel; for which he was now and then rewarded with a piece of ass’s flesh.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Bravo! said the ass; upon my word, you make a famous noise; pray what is all this about?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
