Buttocks

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Equivalents

Examples

“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.[…]’”

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