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Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A person's buttocks

   A person's buttocks; the bottom, the backside. Also: the anus; the rectum.

   • As the novel progresses, he is shot in the hand with his own gun, shot in the arse with someone else's and lacerated by a prosthetic weed trimmer.
   • No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse.
2. 2

   A stupid, pompous, arrogant, mean or despicable person.

   • “You're an arse,” Ellen said. ¶ “Please? You must like something about me …?” ¶ “I do. You're an arse. I just told you that. I feel comfy with you, because you're such an arse.”
   • Felnigg. What a suppurating arse. Look at him. Arse.
3. 3

   Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.

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   1. 4

      A person

      A person; the self; (reflexively) oneself or one's person, chiefly their body; (by extension) one's personal safety, or figuratively one's job, prospects, etc.

   2. 5

      To be silly, act stupid or mess around.

      • Stop arsing around!
      • He was university material, just arsing about as a rigger, arsing about, killing time with bohunks like me[…].
      • Pi, upset, roars, "Quit arsing around there and get cracking," and a dozen heads turn their way.
   3. 6

      An expression of frustration.

      • (euphemistic)
   4. 7

      Abbreviation of arylsulfatase E, an enzyme, deficiencies in which are associated with…

      Abbreviation of arylsulfatase E, an enzyme, deficiencies in which are associated with abnormalities in cartilage and bone development.

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