buttockとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 buttok, probably from 古期英語 buttuc (“end; end piece”; also, “short piece of land”). Attested with its current anatomical meaning since 1300. A diminutive form of what is presumably the 古期英語 precursor of butt +‎ -ock (diminutive suffix).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbʌtək/, [ˈbɐtək]
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbʌtək/, [ˈbʌɾək]
• 韻: -ʌtək

名詞

buttock (plural buttocks)

1. (usually in the plural) 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.

   Synonyms: (crude) asscheek, cheek; see also Thesaurus:buttocks

   • c. 1615–1620 (date written), Tho[mas] Middleton, The Mayor of Quinborough: A Comedy. […] [Hengist, King of Kent], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1661, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 61:

     Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […]

2. (nautical) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
   • 1925, Adventure, volume 54:

     There came a blast of freezing wind that made Skell shrug himself against the oaken post on which the ship's buttock rested.

使用する際の注意点

• The plural form is usually used in the singular sense for a single person's posterior, often informally called butt (North America) or bum (Britain). It is rarer to refer to only a single buttock, which is then usually specified as left or right.

派生語

参考

• callipygian/callipygous
• dasypygal

Further reading

• “buttock” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “buttock”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.