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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]

Merriam Webster's

noun plural Etymology: Latin, plural of natis buttock Date: circa 1706 buttocks

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n.pl. Anat. the buttocks. Etymology: L

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nates Na"tes, n. pl. [L., the buttocks.] 1. (Anat.) (a) The buttocks. (b) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.