ASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ass mean? 

• ASS (noun)
  The noun ASS has 4 senses:

1. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

2. a pompous fool

3. hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse

4. slang for sexual intercourse

  Familiarity information: ASS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; butt; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; stern; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush

Context example:

are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Hypernyms ("ass" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("ass" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A pompous fool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ass" is a kind of...):

fool; muggins; sap; saphead; tomfool (a person who lacks good judgment)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ass" is a kind of...):

equid; equine (hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ass"):

domestic ass; donkey; Equus asinus (domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn)

jack; jackass (male donkey)

jennet; jenny; jenny ass (female donkey)

wild ass (any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa)

Holonyms ("ass" is a member of...):

Equus; genus Equus (type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Slang for sexual intercourse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ass; fuck; fucking; nookie; nooky; piece of ass; piece of tail; roll in the hay; screw; screwing; shag; shtup

Hypernyms ("ass" is a kind of...):

carnal knowledge; coition; coitus; copulation; intercourse; relation; sex act; sexual congress; sexual intercourse; sexual relation (sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur)

Domain usage:

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

 Context examples 

“Well, Donkey,” said Chanticleer, “what do you see?” “What do I see?” replied the ass.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Tarp Henry, my companion, was plucking at my skirts and I heard him whispering, "Sit down, Malone! Don't make a public ass of yourself."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“No more an ass than I, sir,” returned the captain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“You can write me down an ass this time, Watson,” said he.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet surely the gentle ass whose intentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, deserved better treatment than blows and execration.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Taxonomic family which includes horses, zebras, and asses.

(Equidae, NCI Thesaurus)

A family of hoofed mammals consisting of HORSES, asses, donkeys, and zebras.

(Equidae, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

And I still believe that Herbert Spencer is a great and noble man and that Judge Blount is an unmitigated ass.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Oh, what an ass I have been!” I exclaimed.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The old ass has drunk himself into a state of dotage,” said Uriah, turning uglier than before, “and it has been got from him by fraud!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)