What does buttocks mean?
Buttocks means plural of buttock..
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/ˈbʌ.təks/ · noun
plural of buttock..
At leaſt five Hundred of theſe reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ranſacking our Houſes, leaving me ſometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ſo much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’
Use buttocks when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Buttocks means plural of buttock..
Common synonyms include 'tocks, arse, arse cheeks, ass.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
At leaſt five Hundred of theſe reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ranſacking our Houſes, leaving me ſometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ſo much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
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