From en.wiktionary.org:
[Bottom]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en]
From [en], [enm], from [en], [ang], from [en], from [en], from [en]. Cognate
with [nl], [de], [is], [da]; also [ga], [grc], [sa], [fa], [la] (whence
[notext=1], via [fr]).
The sense “posterior of a person” is first attested in 1794; the verb “to
reach the bottom of” is first attested in 1808. [en] is from 1882.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] The lowest part of anything.
2. * [chapter=13]
3. * [text=a great ship’s kettle of iron, with the BOTTOM knocked out]
4. * [passage=At the BOTTOM of the staircase I stood and stared at the worn steps, and Ayesha, turning, saw me.]
5. * [passage=No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather BOTTOMS and worsted bottoms.]
1. The lowest or last position in a rank.
2. [en] A garment worn to cover the body below the torso .
3. [en] The lowest part of a container .
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=December 21, 2011 | author=Helen Pidd | title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis | work=the Guardian | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/21/europe-migrants-crisis-irish-portuguese
|passage=In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has
climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the BOTTOM
fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year,
40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year,
according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the
largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%.}}
1. Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water .
2. [en] The second half of an inning , the home team 's turn at bat .
3. [en] The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
1. The remote st or innermost part of something.
2. The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
3. * [passage=Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the BOTTOM - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond.]
4. [en] Low-lying land; a valley or hollow .
5. * [volume=II]
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1812 | author=w:Amos Stoddard | title=Sketches of Louisiana
|passage=the BOTTOMS and the high grounds}}
1. [en] [Low] -lying land near a river with alluvial soil .
2. [en] [en] The buttock s or anus . [1794]
3. * [en]
4. [en] The bed of a body of water .
5. An abyss .
6. * [book=4]
7. [en] A cargo vessel, a ship.
8. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1881 | author=s:Robert Louis Stevenson | title=s:Virginibus Puerisque
|passage=We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]}}
1. [en] Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater .
2. * [I]
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=1773-11-08 | last=Bancroft | journal=w:Boston Post-Boy
|passage=Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same
BOTTOMS in which they were shipped.}}
1. [en] [en] A submissive partner in a sadomasochistic relationship .
2. * [en]
1. [en] A submissive partner in a sexual relationship.
3. [en] [en] A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse .
4. [en] Character , reliability , staying power , dignity , integrity or sound judgment .
5. [en] Power of endurance .
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2017 | author=Les Savage | title=The Teton Bunch: A Western Trio
|passage=This was why Dee had always ridden a buckskin; a man following his
kind of trails needed a horse with BOTTOM, and a line-back like this one never
wore out.}}
1. [en] A ball or skein of thread ; a cocoon .
2. * [passage=the [ silk ] worms will fasten themselves, and make their BOTTOMS , which in about fourteen days are finished.]
3. [en] A trundle or spindle of thread < !-- (mainly in the arms of Hoby of Badland)-->.
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1724 | author=John Guillim | title=A Display of Heraldry | page=207
|text=Edward Hoby of Bisham in Berkshire, Esq; Or, a Fess, Sable, between
three Hobby-Hawks, proper; otherwise, Azure, three BOTTOMS in Fess, Gules.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1866 | author=Hugh Clark | title=An Introduction to Heraldry ... Eighteenth edition. Revised and corrected by J. R. Planché | page=99
|text=BOTTOM, a trundle or quill of gold thread. See TRUNDLE. _Argent three
BOTTOMS , in fess gules, the thread or_; name, _Hoby_, of Badland.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1873 | author=Henry Sydney Grazebrook | title=The Heraldry of Worcestershire | page=285
|text=[...] three “ BOTTOMS or clewes” (elsewhere called “spindles” or “fusils
upon slippers”) in fesse gules threaded or, for _Badlond_;}}
1. [en] Dregs or ground s; lee s; sediment .
2. [en] [en] [en] .
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en|title=Terms derived from _bottom_ (noun) |ambulance at the bottom of
a cliff |anti-bottom quark |antibottom |artichoke bottom |at bottom |at the
bottom of |at the bottom of the pile |bell-bottom |bell-bottom trousers |bet
one's bottom dollar |bikini bottom |black bottom |black bottom |black bottom
pie |bot |bottom ag |bottom age |bottom antiquark |bottom bitch |bottom
bracket |bottom burp |bottom dead center |bottom dog |bottom dollar |bottom
drawer |bottom drawer syndrome |bottom edge |bottom fall out |bottom feeder
|bottom feeding |bottom fermentation |bottom fishing |bottom gear |bottom girl
|bottom growth |bottom hand |bottom heat |bottom kill |bottom line |bottom
liner |bottom man |bottom of the barrel |bottom of the harbour |bottom of the
hour |bottom of the line |bottom of the ninth |bottom of the sea |bottom of
the table |bottom on |bottom order |bottom out |bottom pair |bottom power
|bottom quark |bottom sheet |bottom the house |bottom time |bottom type
|bottom woman |bottom-age |bottom-aged |bottom-dwelling |bottom-end
|bottom-feeder |bottom-fishing |bottom-hat transform |bottom-most |bottom-post
|bottom-poster |bottom-shelf |bottom-up |bottom-upwards |bottomer |bottomful
|bottomhood |bottomland |bottomless |bottomness |bottomonium |bottomry
|bottoms up |bottoms up |bottoms up squat |bottomward |bottomwards |bottomwear
|bottomy |bottonium |cauldron bottom |crawl-a-bottom |deasphalter bottoms
|dyke bottom |false bottom |fidget-bottom |flat-bottom |flog-bottomist |Foggy
Bottom |from the bottom of one's heart |from top to bottom |front bottom |get
to the bottom of |glass-bottom boat |Hackney Bottom |hardbottom |hit bottom
|hit rock bottom |in the bottom of the bag |Ironbottom Sound |kettle bottom
|kick up the bottom |like the bottom of a birdcage |Lulsgate Bottom |oven
bottom |piggin bottoms |power bottom |put the bottom rail on top |race to the
bottom |river bottom |rock-bottom |saggar maker's bottom knocker |salt bottom
|sbottom |sbottom squark |scrape at the bottom of the barrel |scrape the
bottom of the barrel |seabottom |Six Mile Bottom |smooth as a baby's bottom
|soft as a baby's bottom |softbottom |stand on one's own bottom |subbottom
|sulfur-bottom |sulfur-bottom whale |sulphur bottom whale |sulphur-bottom
|sulphur-bottom whale |top from the bottom |top to bottom |top-to-bottom
|tops-and-bottoms |touch bottom |unbottom |unbottomed |underbottom |Westley
Bottom |wind up one's bottoms |wind up one's bottoms }}
**** Descendants
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**** Translations
[lowest part]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khalaj: [klj] , [klj] , [klj]
- Komi-Permyak: [koi]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Ladin: [lld]
- Ladino: [lad] , [lad]
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] [of a container]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn]
- Nanai: [gld]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norwegian:
- Old Prussian: [prg]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Talysh: [tly]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[garment worn on lower body]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[valley]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Polish: [pl]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[euphemistic: buttocks or anus]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Basque: [eu]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Egyptian: [ꜥrt]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et] , [et] , [et] , [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [for buttocks] [ko] , [for anus] [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sami:
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[nautical: cargo vessel]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[nautical: low parts of a vessel]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[baseball: second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Japanese: [ja]
[trans-bottom]
[BDSM: submissive in sadomasochism]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Marathi: [mr]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: penetrated partner in sex]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Chinese:
- Classical Nahuatl: [nci] , [nci]
- Coptic: [cop]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek:
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Indonesian: [id] [slang]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Old Tupi: [tpw]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[physics: bottom quark]
[lowest part of a container]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Thai: [th]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[ball or skein of thread; a cocoon]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[bed of a body of water]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Greek:
- Romanian: [ro]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[abyss]
[power of endurance]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[dregs or grounds, lees, sediment]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.]
2. [en] To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water ).
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1866 | title=Dirge of the Drinker | journal=The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art | page=645
|passage=We shall bid that thoughtful waiter place beside him, near and handy,
/ Large supplies of soda water, tumblers BOTTOMED well with brandy, [...]}}
1. [en] To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). [17th c.]
2. * [III]
3. [en] To establish or found (something) _on_ or _upon_ . [from 17th c.]
4. * [text=But an absurd opinion concerning the king’s hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and BOTTOMED upon solid principles of law and policy.]
5. * [passage=those false and deceiving grounds upon which many BOTTOM their eternal state]
6. * 2001 , United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, _Executive Orders and Presidential Directives_ , p.59:
7. *: Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when BOTTOMED on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
8. [en] To lie on the bottom of; to underlie , to lie beneath. [from 18th c.]
9. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1989 | author=B Mukherjee | title=Jasmine
|passage=My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its
windows, its pool BOTTOMED with garbage sacks.}}
1. [en] To be based or grounded. [17th–19th c.]
2. * ''' c. 1703 _, [John Locke] , _ Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman ''
3. *: Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced BOTTOMS .
4. [en] To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.]
5. * [en]
6. [en] To reach the bottom of something.
7. * [1=en]
8. To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.]
9. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2004 | author=John J. Murphy | title=Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships | page=119 | passage= '' The Dow Jones Industrial Average BOTTOMED on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index ''' bottomed {"content": "'''", "type": "DELIM", "wikinode": "WikiDelimNode"} on October 24. {"content": "''", "type": "DELIM", "wikinode": "WikiDelimNode"} }}
10. [en] To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. [from 20th c.]
11. [en] To be anally penetrated in gay sex. [from 20th c.]
12. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en |bottom for |bottom out |rebottom }}
**** Translations
[to reach the bottom]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[to be anally penetrated in gay sex]
- Danish: [da]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adjective
[-]
1. The lowest or last place or position .
2. [en] Relating to the genitals .
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en |bottom dysphoria |bottom surgeon |bottom surgery }}
**** Translations
[lowest or last place or position]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Latin: [la]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
- [en]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
[nl]. [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [nl] bottom [passive or submissive role in sexual relations]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [bôttome]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Adjective
[mf]
1. [fr] [en] [passive in role]
** Portuguese
*** Etymology
[pt].
*** Adjective
[inv=1]
1. [pt]
*** Noun
[m]
1. bottom quark [quark]
** Yola
*** Noun
[yol]
1. [yol]
*** References
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