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assback

noun

Etymology

From ass + back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. formed as assback — “ass + back”

Definitions

  1. The back of a donkey.

    • 1691, uncredited translators, Plutarch’s Morals, Part 2, London: T. Sawbridge et al., p. 224, […] they took her and set her on Ass-back, and led her round about the City,
    • The way of riding most used in this place is on assback.
    • Riding on assback was accounted a disgrace and a degradation to the Gothic hidalgo,

  2. On the back of a donkey.

    • […] I should have thought a great chief had something better to do than to play chess either horseback or assback.
    • That samurai is surely fast alive In his hunched and silhouetted dozing, assback, In the blur of fog,

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