backside
adjEtymology From back + side.
1
Approaching an obstacle backward.
- Antonyms
- frontside
backside
noun/ˈbækˌsaɪd/
Etymology From back + side.
1
The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly
- I gazed uncomprehendedly at the unfinished backside of the wall of the next room and wondered what had happened to my face.1987 June 17, Vic Bubbett, “Rambling Reflections: When a ‘red telephone call’ comes in, it can change one’s life forever and ever”, in The Dothan Progress, volume 16, number 48, Dothan, Ala., →OCLC, page 3-A, column 3:
› The back side of anything, the part opposite…
2
The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
- The building's backside faced an alley and was covered in grime and graffiti.
3
Euphemistic A person's buttocks.
- Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside.
- With an arrowe so broad, He shott him into the backe-syde.c. 1500, Robin Hood, Bk. ii, Ch. iv, p. 236:
1 more example
- Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside.1992 May 4, The Independent, page 13:
4
Obsolete The back side of a page: a verso.
5
Figuratively The reverse or opposite of anything.
- ...to endorse him on the backside of posterity, not a golden, but a brazen Asse...1645, John Milton, Colasterion, page 26:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.
- Derived terms
- backside throw, get off one's backside, have a sixpenny bit up one's backside, have a sixpenny bit up one’s backside, kick up the backside, my backside, pain in the backside, sit on one's backside, think the sun shines out of someone's backside