nether cheek
- noun
- Informal
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trasero
- He slipped on the ice and landed squarely on his nether cheek.
Examples
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The child sat down hard, hitting his nether cheeks on the ground.
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The chair was so uncomfortable, it bruised my nether cheek.
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After hours of cycling, her nether cheek was sore.
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He fell and landed right on his nether cheek.
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After a long bike ride, my nether cheek felt quite sore from the seat.
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He lost his balance and fell, landing directly on his nether cheek.
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Sitting on the wooden bench for hours made my nether cheek uncomfortable.
Synonyms
95
1.0
One of the two soft rounded parts of the bottom
14
8.6
A name children use for the part of the body you sit on
13
9.9
An informal word for a person's bottom
12
9.9
The soft part of the body you sit on
9
8.8
The soft back part of the body that you sit on
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8.9
The soft part at the back of your body that you sit on
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7.8
The lower part of the body that includes the private parts and bottom
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9.9
An informal word for the parts at the back of the body that you sit on
1
9.9
The soft part of your body that you sit on
How Polite
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense is directly compositional: 'nether' = lower/beneath and 'cheek' = one of the fleshy parts of the buttocks, so a learner who knows both words can infer 'lower cheek' = buttock. Although euphemistic, the construction follows a transparent, cross-linguistically familiar pattern (e.g. 'nether regions'), making the meaning predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Nether cheek comes from two simple words: nether meaning 'lower' and cheek meaning a rounded part of the body. So the phrase paints the image of the lower rounded part of the body, and it means 'the buttocks'.