Backside Meaning
/ˈbækˌsaɪd/Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly
nounThe back side of anything, the part opposite its front, The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
Sentence Examples
Write the sender's address on the backside!
I ate too many beans and now my backside cannot stop singing.
Tom slipped on the wet grass and fell on his backside.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He slipped on the ice and landed hard on his ____ , causing a bruise.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He fell and landed hard on his ____ while he was skating on the ice.
Word Origin & History
From back + side.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I gazed uncomprehendedly at the unfinished backside of the wall of the next room and wondered what had happened to my face."
— 1987 June 17, Vic Bubbett, “Rambling Reflections: When a ‘red telephone call’ comes in, it can change one’s life forever and ever”, in The Dothan Progress, volume 16, number 48, Dothan, Ala., →OCLC, page 3-A, column 3:
"With an arrowe so broad, He shott him into the backe-syde."
— c. 1500, Robin Hood, Bk. ii, Ch. iv, p. 236:
"Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside."
— 1992 May 4, The Independent, page 13:
"...to endorse him on the backside of posterity, not a golden, but a brazen Asse..."
— 1645, John Milton, Colasterion, page 26:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He slipped on the ice and landed hard on his ____ , causing a bruise.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He fell and landed hard on his ____ while he was skating on the ice.