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Buttock   /bˈətək/   Listen
Buttock

noun
1.
Either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump.  Synonym: cheek.





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"Buttock" Quotes from Famous Books



... or thirty muskets, from different ambuscades, were discharged at the English officers. Mr. Cotymore received a shot in his left breast, and in a few days expired: Mr. Bell was wounded in the calf of the left leg, and the interpreter in the buttock. Ensign Milne, who remained in the fort, was no sooner informed of this treachery, than he ordered the soldiers to shackle the hostages; in the execution of which order one man was killed on the spot, ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... Let us be contented with laying the snippings on the altar, and thus showing the people our piety and condescension. They, and the gods also, will be just as well satisfied, as if we offered up a buttock of beef, with a bushel of salt and the same quantity of ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor


Words linked to "Buttock" :   glute, body, cheek, gluteus muscle, gluteal muscle, gluteus, torso, trunk, body part


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