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See also:ARSE,Árse,andarşe

English

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Noun

arse (pluralarses)

(Commonwealth, now vulgar) Thebuttocks or more specifically, theanus.
Synonyms:seeThesaurus:buttocks,Thesaurus:anus
- 2011 March 12, James Smart,The Guardian:
  As the novel progresses, he is shot in the hand with his own gun, shot in thearse with someone else's and lacerated by a prosthetic weed trimmer.
- 2017,Neil Gaiman,Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page131:
  No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin'sarse.
- 2020 September 9, Jason Chamberlain, “The growing likelihood of a 'different type of railway'”, inRail, page45:
  Or to put it in the more colourful language of our Prime Minister: "The secret to improving rail transport, in my view, is you need to find the rightarse to kick." Unfortunately, since the abolition of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) in 2005, the DfT has ostensibly been in direct control of railway policy setting, and this has meant that the onlyarse the government has been able to kick is its own.
(chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang) Astupid,pompous,arrogant,mean ordespicable person.
- 2007, Martin Harrison,The Judgement of Paris,page282:
  “You're anarse,” Ellen said. ¶ “Please? You must like something about me …?” ¶ “I do. You're anarse. I just told you that. I feel comfy with you, because you're such anarse.”
- 2007, L. A. Wilson,The Silurian: Book One: The Fox and the Bear,page103:
  He looked at me, was just about to call me anarse, when I told him, “You throw it too hard. Try and think of the javelin hitting the target before you throw it. Let it all go through your mind first, see it, feel it, then throw it.” ¶ “Good advice, youarse,” he said and tried again.
- 2011, Joe Abercrombie,The Heroes,unnumbered page:
  Felnigg. What a suppuratingarse. Look at him.Arse.
(vulgar, slang, uncountable)Used insimiles to express somethingbad orunpleasant.
(vulgar, slang, metonymically, countable) Aperson; theself; (reflexively)oneself or one'sperson, chiefly theirbody;(by extension) one's personal safety, or figuratively one's job, prospects, etc.

Usage notes

The formarse (as opposed toass) and its derivatives are usually used by speakers and writers in preference toass in Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth countries, though only regionally in Canada (in theAtlantic provinces). Historicallyarse was also used inNew England but the form has now been superseded byass throughout the US and in the rest of Canada.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, seeCitations:arse.

Derived terms

Terms derived fromarse (noun)

Descendants

Sranan Tongo:lasi

Translations

arse—seeass

Verb

arse (third-person singular simple presentarses,present participlearsing,simple past and past participlearsed)

(Commonwealth, slang, intransitive) To besilly, actstupid or mess around.
Stoparsing around!
- 1985, Sam McAughtry,McAughtry's War,page10:
  He was university material, justarsing about as a rigger,arsing about, killing time with bohunks like me[…].
- 2005,Keri Hulme,The Bone People,page291:
  Pi, upset, roars, "Quitarsing around there and get cracking," and a dozen heads turn their way.
- 2011, Jaine Fenn,Bringer of Light,unnumbered page:
  He was half-expecting a call from the lingua, telling him to stoparsing around, but his com stayed silent, so it looked like a certain amount ofarsing around was allowed.

Derived terms

Interjection

arse

(Commonwealth)An expression of frustration.
Synonym:bum(euphemistic)

Anagrams

Sare,EARs,eras,AREs,Sera,Ersa,ERAs,reas,Sear,sera,sear,ears,RASE,SERA,rase,Ares,ares,sare

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈar.se/
Rhymes:-arse
Hyphenation:àr‧se

Etymology 1

Adjective

arse f pl

feminine plural ofarso

Participle

arse f pl

feminine plural ofarso

Etymology 2

Verb

arse

third-person singular past historic ofardere

Anagrams

Ares,rase,resa,sera

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈar.se/,[ˈärs̠ɛ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈar.se/,[ˈärse]

Participle

arse

vocative masculine singular ofarsus

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation ofairi(“for the sake of it; therefore”) +‎se(“this”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈar͈ʲsʲe/

Adverb

arse

therefore, for this/thatreason
Synonym:airi
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.12^a22
  Ní nád ṁbedarse di chorp, act atá de.
  Not that it might not be therefore of (the) body, but (rather) it is of it