bottom
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈbɑːtəm/
- Informal
- After sitting for hours, my bottom felt sore from the hard chair.
Examples
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What's that at the bottom of your back?
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Yeah, mine feels as soft as a baby's bottom, moisturised.
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Please wipe my little bottom for me.
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My skin wakes up like a baby's bottom and it is like such.
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The cups are numbered on their bottoms 1 through 8 (1 through 5 for beginners).
Academic text (2011) -
The child played on the grass, giggling as she fell and landed on her bottom.
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He slipped and fell, landing squarely on his bottom with a loud thud.
Synonyms
∞
5.7
The fleshy part of your body that you sit on
∞
9.6
The rude word for the part of the body you sit on
∞
1.6
The fleshy part of the body that you sit on
75
2.5
The soft part of your body that you sit on
73
1.6
Two rounded soft parts at the back of the human body that you sit on
58
7.5
The part of the body you sit on
38
1.3
The part of the body that you sit on
34
8.8
A slang word for the part of the body you sit on
32
7.9
The part of the body you sit on
31
2.0
The soft part of the body you sit on
28
2.0
The part of the body you sit on
25
7.5
An informal American word for the soft part of your body that you sit on
24
2.8
The soft part at the back of your hips that you sit on
20
8.2
The soft part of the body that you sit on
12
9.5
The soft part of the body you sit on
11
8.1
The soft part of the body you sit on
6
4.9
The fleshy part of the body that you sit on
6
6.6
The rear part of an animal or person's body with hips and thighs
3
3.2
The part at the back of the body that you sit on
2
6.8
The part of the body you sit on
1
9.9
A child's word for the bottom
1
9.9
The two soft parts at the back of your hips that you sit on
1
9.6
The part of the body you sit on
1
2.1
One of the two round soft parts at the back of the hips
1
9.1
The soft part of the body you sit on
1
9.4
The part of the body you sit on
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
25
4.8
To reach the lowest point in your life before you begin to get better
- Informal
5
7.5
Use the least good options because nothing better is left
- Informal
A late action that deals with a problem only after it has happened
- Informal
To risk all your money because you are sure something will happen
Compounds
- Informal
16
7.4
The last part of the final inning in baseball when the home team bats, a final chance to win
- Offensive
14
7.7
A person who gains from other people's problems by taking advantage of them
- Literature
4
8.2
A nickname for the United States government office that deals with other countries
2
6.5
An animal, often a fish, that lives on the bottom of rivers or lakes and eats dead plants and animals
1
3.9
A cheaper model in a product range that has lower quality and is chosen to save money
1
6.7
An animal like a fish that lives and eats on the bottom of a lake, river, or sea
- Specialized
1
9.9
A very small particle created in particle experiments that is much heavier than an electron
- Specialized
1
4.9
A glass container with a round body and a narrow neck used for heating or mixing chemicals
- NSFW
1
9.9
Influence from people in a community, sometimes using sexual appeal to sway decisions
- Specialized
1
7.9
A disease caused by a fungus that makes the bottom leaves of plants rot first
- Specialized
A slow, cold process that makes alcohol in beer where yeast settles to the bottom, used to make lager beers
- Specialized
A yeast that sinks to the bottom of a beer tank and makes lager beer
- Specialized
A fungus that makes the lower parts of lettuce and other plants rot
- Specialized
A sheet of copper fixed to a ship's bottom to stop barnacles and sea life
How Polite
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bottom came to mean the part you sit on because it is the body's lowest part. So bottom now means the fleshy area you sit on.