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Discover LudwigThe word 'buttock' is a proper and usable word in written English
It can be used to describe the bottom, rounded portion of the human body, typically referred to as the backside. For example, you can use the sentence: He rubbed his sore buttocks after the long hike up the mountain.
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buttock
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Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum and the top of the legs.
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It's the contrast between yellow skin and curling black hair; the sloping shoulder; the sallow buttock; the nubby, ribby little tits, their useless pink nipples rimmed with spider's legs.
"They tend to lean forward and will often sit on one buttock," she tells me.
I thought they'd tried to push me off, but as my right buttock throbbed I realised with horror that they'd slapped my bum.
In the face of this elephantine boil on the fat buttock of Westminster, we are being treated to prolonged national debate over the layout of Miliband's second kitchen.
Few women are veiled; they squeeze into shared taxis with men, buttock to buttock.And non-Islamic superstition persists: mosques are said miraculously to build themselves at night, sulphurous crater lakes serve as wishing wells, and witch doctors, more influential than most mullahs, are paid to cast or remove spells.
It is both brutally realistic (once you have heard how Phereclus died by a spear through his right buttock into his bladder, you won't forget it) and belonging to another world as the Greek epithet for Homer, theois aoidos or "divine singer" suggests.
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This struck me as a buttock-slappingly good prospect.
Here was a food basket of hope, a basket that embodied the Goop philosophy, a basket that said, loud and proud: even America's poor can enjoy the kind of joyless, buttock-clenching, is-this-kombucha-locally-sourced? diet a body-image obsessed Hollywood actor might suffer, in order to look good in a Stella McCartney crêpe de chine statement-piece skirt ($1,960 on Goop's webstore).
It's estimated that it takes more than 600 hours to get to the highest possible level in WoW, and a 2009 study found an average single session of play lasted 2.3 hours (the longest recorded was a buttock-numbing 16 hours in one go).
Tattoos are not impulse buys (drunken buttock-anchors aside), so the shops do not need to be in prime locations.
Others seem even more buttock-clenchingly awful in retrospect than they did at the time.
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