Ass in Scrabble Dictionary

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Definitions and meaning of ass

ass

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăs, IPA^(key): /æs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Etymology 1

From Middle English asse, from Old English assa, back-formed from assen (“she-ass”), from Celtic (compare Old Irish asan, Old Cornish asen), from Latin asinus. Replaced Old English esol, from Proto-West Germanic *asil, also a loanword from the same Latin word.

Noun

ass (plural asses)

1. Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden.

   Synonym: donkey
2. (slang) A stupid person.

   Synonyms: fool, idiot

Hyponyms

• (beast of burden): donkey, onager, wild ass

Derived terms

Related terms

• asinine

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Etymology 2

Variant of arse; used chiefly in North America. Ultimately from Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Old High German ars (German Arsch), Old Norse ars, Old Frisian ers), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érsos (compare Ancient Greek ὄρρος (órrhos)).

Contrary to the widespread belief of this being a euphemism, it arose as a pronunciation spelling (of the older form arse still used in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) that shows the loss of -r- before s increasingly common in all words since the 18th century in both England and its colonies. In the USA, "dropping Rs" (non-rhotic pronunciation) was common in prestige speech until the 1860s, when the American Civil War shifted the country's centers of wealth and political power to areas with fewer cultural connections to the British elite. (See also these similar cases, some of which retained both spellings with different meanings: cuss from curse, gash from garsh, bass (“fish”) from barse, bust from burst, passel from parcel.)

Noun

ass (countable and uncountable, plural asses)

2. (vulgar, slang) Buttocks.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks

3. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sex.

   Synonyms: poontang, poon, punani, pussy, tail, tang; see also Thesaurus:copulation
4. (vulgar, slang) Anus.
   • 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, page 68

     Train compartment: two sick young junkies on their way to Lexington tear their pants down in convulsions of lust. One of them soaps his cock and works it up the other's ass with a corkscrew motion.

5. (vulgar, slang) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.

6. (vulgar, slang, metonymically) One's self or person, chiefly their body. By extension, one's personal safety, or figuratively one's job, prospects, etc.

Usage notes

• When used metonymically to refer to a person, it adds a tone of anger or disapproval to the whole sentence: "he has trouble getting his ass up in the morning" is much stronger and more negative than "he has trouble getting up in the morning". Such usage is also considered by many to be rude, vulgar and offensive, especially when it refers to the person addressed.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

ass

1. (postpositive, vulgar, slang) Used after an adjective to indicate extremes or excessiveness. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

   Synonym: -ass

Further reading

• L. Sprague de Camp (1971) , “Arse and ass”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 1, issue 2, DOI:10.1017/S0025100300000281, pages 79–80

Anagrams

• SAS, SSA, Sas

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German

Verb

ass

1. Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of aß.

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Latvian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *aśís, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-. Originally an i/n-stem, it became an i-stem in Baltic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [as]

Noun

ass f (6th declension)

1. axle (pin or spindle around which something, e.g. a wheel, rotates)

2. (mathematics) axis (a line with certain important properties)

Declension

Etymology 2

From the same source as ass (“axle”), originally a unit of measurement corresponding to the length of a person's outstretched arms (compare Russian са́жень (sáženʹ, “old unit of measurement; length of outstretched arms”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [as]

Noun

ass f (6th declension)

1. old unit of length in the Russian system, equivalent to approximately 2.13 meters

2. old unit of volume for measuring wood, equivalent to approximately 2-4 cubic meters

Declension

Etymology 3

From earlier *asus, from Proto-Baltic *ašus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed, edgy”). With an extra suffix *-ro, the same stem also yielded Proto-Balto-Slavic *aśras (“sharp”), whence Latvian dialectal asrs, as well as the Lithuanian cognate aštrùs, dialectal ašrùs. From this stem, there are also Latvian reflexes with ak rather than as (e.g., akmens (“stone”), akots (“awn”)), possibly a result of Proto-Indo-European dialectal variation. In Latvian, former u-stem adjectives like *asus were assimilated into other classes; *asus gave rise to both an o-stem and a yo-stem variant which later on became independent words, ass and ašs, with different semantic nuances (compare also, e.g., plats and plašs, or dobs and dobjš). Other cognates include Old Church Slavonic остръ (ostrŭ), Russian о́стрый (óstryj), Belarusian во́стры (vóstry), Ukrainian о́стрий (óstryj), го́стрий (hóstryj), Bulgarian о́стър (óstǎr), Czech ostrý, Polish ostry, Proto-Germanic *agjō (Old High German ecka, egga (“corner, edge, point, peak, blade”), German Ecke, Sanskrit अश्रिः (áśriḥ, “corner, edge, blade”), Ancient Greek ἀκή (akḗ, “point, tip”), ἄκρος (ákros, “sharp, pointed”), Latin ācer (“sharp”), aciēs (“sharpness, blade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [as]

Adjective

ass (definite asais, comparative asāks, superlative visasākais, adverb asi)

1. sharp (such that it (blade, tool) can easily cut or pierce)

2. pointed (having a narrow tip)

3. angular, not rounded (of body parts; also of writing, drawing)

4. (of plants) sharp (having little thorns or thorn-like growths, or having a sharp edge, capable of stinging)

5. (of fabric, skin, etc.) coarse, rough

6. sharp, pungent, hot (which irritates the senses, creating a strong feeling or reaction)

7. harsh (voice, sound); sharp, biting, unsparing, fierce

8. sharp, well-defined, clearly marked

9. (about problems, questions) clear, acute, of immediate importance

10. sharp (very well developed, very accurate)

Declension

Synonyms

• (of "sharp"): skaudrs
• (of "coarse", "harsh"): raupjš, rupjš, negluds, skarbs

Antonyms

• (of "sharp"): truls, neass
• (of "coarse", "harsh"): gluds, maigs, mīksts

Derived terms

• asums

References

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Luxembourgish

Verb

ass

1. is (third-person singular present of sinn)

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish ass, masculine and neuter singular form of a (“out of, from”), from Proto-Celtic *exs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“from”). Compare Irish as.

Adverb

ass

1. out

Preposition

ass

1. out of

Inflection

Derived terms

• ass y çheer
• ass y hene

Pronoun

ass

1. first-person plural of ec

   out of him/it

Derived terms

• assyn (emphatic)

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Middle English

Noun

ass

1. Alternative form of asshe (“burnt matter”)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• Ass (alternative capitalization)

Noun

ass m (definite singular assen, indefinite plural asser, definite plural assene)

1. (music) A-flat

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• Ass (alternative capitalization)

Noun

ass m (definite singular assen, indefinite plural assar, definite plural assane)

1. (music) A-flat

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• as
• es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as/

Pronoun

ass

1. third-person singular masculine of a

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Swedish

Noun

ass n

1. (music) A-flat
2. an insured letter; Abbreviation of assurerat. (brev)

Declension

See also

• rek

Anagrams

• s.a.s., sas

Source: wiktionary.org

• a longhaired animal like a small horse; a stupid person.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)