hindquarter

English

Etymology

From hind +‎ quarter.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

hindquarter (plural hindquarters)

1. Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
2. (in the plural) The hind biped (leg) of a quadruped, or all body parts situated behind the hind legs' trunk-attachment.
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.

3. (metonymically, derogatory, usually in the plural) Human behind, butt.

Translations

rear half of a side of an animal

• Bulgarian: бут (bg) m (but)
• Dutch: achtereinde (nl) n, achterhand (nl) n
• Finnish: takaneljännes
• Swedish: bakfjärding c, bakbog c
• Tagalog: pamahuli

hind leg of a quadruped

• Armenian: բուդ (hy) (bud)
• Dutch: achtereinde (nl) n, achterhand (nl) n
• Finnish: takajalka
• Irish: ceathrú deiridh f
• Tagalog: pamahuli

human behind

• Dutch: achtereinde (nl) n, achterwerk (nl) n, achterste (nl) n
• Finnish: ahteri (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: akterende (no) m, akterspeil (no) n

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} derrière (fr)

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967