arse是什么意思

arse

英美 [ɑrs]

arse 屁股

同词根oura, 尾巴，指屁股，同cynosure, 狗尾巴，指北极星。

arse: arse: [OE] Arse is a word of considerable antiquity, and its relatives are found practically from end to end of the geographical range of the Indo-European language family, from Old Irish err ‘tail’ in the west to Armenian or ‘rump’. Its Indo-European source was *órsos, which produced the Germanic form *arsaz: hence German arsch, Dutch aars, and, via Old English ærs, English arse.

The euphemistic American spelling ass appears to be as recent as the 1930s, although there is one isolated (British) record of it from 1860. The term wheatear, for a thrushlike European bird, is an alteration over time of a Middle English epithet ‘white arse’, after its white rump feathers.
arse (n.): "buttocks," Old English ærs "tail, rump," from Proto-Germanic *arsoz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Norse ars, Middle Dutch ærs, German Arsch "buttock"), from PIE root *ors- "buttock, backside" (cognates: Greek orros "tail, rump, base of the spine," Hittite arrash, Armenian or "buttock," Old Irish err "tail"). Middle English had arse-winning "money obtained by prostitution" (late 14c.).

2. Have you ever seen such a bunch of self - righteous , arse - covering prigs?: 为什么我总是遇到一些自以为是的饭桶?

3. I think I can wipe my own arse, Mr. Sugarman, thank you!: 我想我能自己搞定,舒格曼先生, 谢谢你!