bottom
- 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
The fleshy part of your body that you sit on
The fleshy part of the body that you sit on
The part of the body you sit on
The rude word for the part of the body you sit on
One of the two round soft parts at the back of the hips
The part of the body you sit on
The part of the body you sit on
The part of the body that you sit on
The soft part of the body you sit on
The soft part of your body that you sit on
An informal American word for the soft part of your body that you sit on
The soft part at the back of your hips that you sit on
The soft part of the body that you sit on
The part of the body you sit on
The soft part of the body you sit on
The soft part of the body you sit on
The fleshy part of the body that you sit on
A slang word for the part of the body you sit on
The part at the back of the body that you sit on
The part of the body you sit on
A child's word for the bottom
The soft part of the body you sit on
Two rounded soft parts at the back of the human body that you sit on
The two soft parts at the back of your hips that you sit on
The rear part of an animal or person's body with hips and thighs
The part of the body you sit on
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To reach the lowest point in your life before you begin to get better
- Informal
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
The last part of the final inning in baseball when the home team bats, a final chance to win
- Offensive
A person who gains from other people's problems by taking advantage of them
An animal, often a fish, that lives on the bottom of rivers or lakes and eats dead plants and animals
- 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
A cheaper model in a product range that has lower quality and is chosen to save money
- NSFW
Influence from people in a community, sometimes using sexual appeal to sway decisions
- Specialized
A very small particle created in particle experiments that is much heavier than an electron
- Specialized
A disease caused by a fungus that makes the bottom leaves of plants rot first
- 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
- Literature
A nickname for the United States government office that deals with other countries
- Specialized
A glass container with a round body and a narrow neck used for heating or mixing chemicals
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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.