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noun
- (usually in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back and the top of the legs.
- The headmaster prided himself on his 'fair' canings on bumbling boys' bare buttocks, administered alternatively from the left and the right, leaving each equally painfully marked.
Translations: - Dutch: bil
- French: fesse
- German: Hinterbacke , colloq. Pobacke , Backe
- Italian: gluteo , natica
- Spanish: nalga
Etymology: probably from buttuc "end, short piece of land", presumed cognate with butt
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