Arse & Ass
Why do the Brits, Australians and some Canadians say arse while the Americans say ass?
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Posted on August 5, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
Les fesses.
booty, cheeks, can, can of crisco,
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GzsWuqNlLK4&feature= related
A favorable word to replace ‘ass’ with, conversationally, is
“caboose” or, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing,
“caboodle” as mentioned in a previous response (misspelled with
a ‘k’ and given the wrong context in ‘kit & Kaboodle’).
The arse, or ass, is also referred to as “thing”,
as in “Hey babe, park that thing right here.”
Ok so you have the words, arse and ass, you can use the word rump as you did in your video, butt, bottom, booty, money maker, salt shaker, tail feather, dookie maker (pretty gross, but funny), etc…
Your pretty hot by the way. Aye
Why did you start hot for words?
just because your hot and you can tell us bout words or…?
HI !!! Back with a new computer, Marina! The old one got sick. Actually, in walking from my desk to the sofa with the P.C. in hand, my
cat Munch got in the way & tripped me up. Now, I’m left back!! When is
detention?
My favorite synonym for ass/arse is slang: cutie patootie. Beyond
that, there is butt, backside, bumper, caboose, can (not to be
confused with cans….strange… ?) and that’s just a few.
Good to be connected again! I missed this!
A goldfish walks into a bar, jumps up on a bar stool, and looks hard at the bartender. He asks the goldfish, “What can I get you?” The fish keeps looking at the guy and gasps: “Water.”
Okay Marina,
The word SET has a huge number of definitions for such a short word. How did SET end up so over-employed?
What’s the betting that video took a few more takes to perfect than usual?
Am I the only one that can’t understand a WORD that the dude in the video is saying?… What the heck?
“kit n kaboodle”*
Where did the phrase the whole kit n “kabodle”
My ass! An exclamation of disbelief, denial , or defiance
denial:
A defense mechanism by which threatening information, feelings or wishes are blocked from conscious awareness because conscious admission would be too painful.
block:
Older British word for copulate . See copulation for synonyms.
Quotes Containing block:
Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Curry) and Milady de Winter (Rebecca De Mornay) who is twisting a dagger into his groin in The Three Musketeers(1993): - Cardinal Richelieu: ”Milady, a snap of my fingers and you could be back on-the-block where I found you.” - Milady de Winter: ”And with a flick of my wrist I could change your religion.”
why do people say gay? why do people use gay in reference to some one liking the same sex sexually?
I’m still trying to figure out where we got the word “SHAMPOO” for hair cleaning product… I shave my head regularly, so I barely use the stuff, but I’m sure someone as well kept, shiny, luscious, tasty, yummy… Wait… What was I talking about?
where does the word ‘giant’ come from??
can,trunk, bootie,
Homework
Synonyms for ass, that have not already been mentioned include:
dumper
tail
badonkadonk
culo
hams
hurdies
moneymaker
prat
six
REQUEST FOR WORD:What is the origin of the word WOW?
Thanks
I wonder if it could be an acrynom (W.O.W.): With Out Words
( just a thought )
Upside, WOW is what everyone should have - MOM!
Okay, this just popped in my head. Where does the expression
“TONGUE IN CHEEK” come from? And what exactly does it mean?
Let’s just hope it has nothing to do with underwear.
Tail to the end. A recital of events to make me look like an ass. My beast of burden carried it from behind. Monkees drank left over teas. Pin my tail on the donkey. Or is the greek to leave his behind. peace out
Oho about the home work here it is..
Homework: booty, butt, buttocks, gluteus maximus, behind, bottom, breech, buns, butt, derriere, fanny, fundament, haunches, heinie, keister, nates, podex, posterior, rear, rump, seat, and steatopygia.
Good Morning Teacher
I am new to your class.I have came to know that word automobile refers to any object that moves eg: Elevator, Cars etc. Is the word automobile doesn’t mean cars only? If automobile refers to all the things that move, then why is a rail engine called a locomotive? I did some work teacher(Marina) but i could not find an answer..so I turned to my trusted teacher..please do help me. good bye teacher..
Hi Marina, here’s a thought, why do people say dry as a bone and not dry as a desert for example?
Hi Marina,
Other words for your Arse, booty, buns, toush, bum, the list is endless.
True (RE: endless). Perhaps the old poem blathering on about
counting the ways had this in mind (Deviants all !! lol!).
Homework: booty, butt, buttocks, gluteus maximus, behind, bottom, breech, buns, butt, derriere, fanny, fundament, haunches, heinie, keister, nates, podex, posterior, rear, rump, seat, and steatopygia.
Wanting to see more of yours, Marina,
Shawn Norris
Excuse me, Miss Marina, I have not just one word as a request to clarify da origin of, but several, eh? I understand if you cannot get to dem all, but maybe one or two would be nice.
DA LIST, EH?:
-Hero
-Justice
-Law
-Valor
Thanks for making da great videos, eh? Not only is it educational, but it is funny at times. Tanks for reading dis comment (eventually, eh?)
Da Demon of Dragons
hey marina, where does the word finger come from? i mean ive never seen my fingers fing. please enlighten me
what is the difference between a burrow and a donky and for my homework marina you have very sweet cheeks or arse or ass which ever you prefer i like your bangin body is there any nudety in your blooper dvd’s
I think I just answered that. Read here.
easy, Burro is a Mexican donkey
Nudity? You mean like a
“wardrobe malfunction”?
Nah! Kobe runs around
without any clothes on.
Nudity here!
http://pro.corbis.com/images/42-15423526.jpg?size= 572&uid=%7B9AE4F61A-620C-4887-8EF8-8388A2E45B95%7D
Does any of you fire fox users know how to turn on the function as to when you send a url to someone it shows up in blue so all the receiver has to do is click on the url and not have to copy and paste it to their browser’s search window? I can get it to work in IE7, but not fire fox.
you mean, like in e-mails or messengers?
Just e-mails. It works on this site in the comments, but if I send you an e-mail it will not change to where you can click on the url and open it from the email I send to you or one that I receive from someone.
I use FF and I just copy and paste it to my email. I use Gmail on FF and I don’t have any problems. For pictures I open a second window and drag and drop the photo on Gmail. It makes a thumbnail and includes the url. Sorry Im not much help.
Remember the last email I sent you and the url was not clickable. It should have been in blue so you could click on it and open it from your email.Like this http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/08/05/arse-ass/#co mment-47442
I can do that in IE7 but not ff.
but what does it have to do with firefox? ff is just a browser, not an e-mail program?
I don’t know Alx , unless something in ff is blocking my email protocols from windows live hot mail. I have both hot mail and hotforwords loaded in two separate tabs in case some one answers a comment then all I have to do is click the email tab and see who sent the comment then switch back to hfws.
does that only happen with hotmail? did you try gmail or any other webmail?
Just Hot mail when I am signed into FF. When I just sign into hot mail by it self the urls works fine.
get a gmail account.
I believe I will. Thanks a lot for all the help Alx.
I’m not sure if i’m understanding you right. i just opened up Firefox, went to File>Send Link (not Send Page) and e-mailed the URL to my yahoo account. The link was active (selectable) when i clicked it, and it went to the correct page.
maybe your install was faulty…
annudder
I just tried the same thing and it worked with no problem. Thanks Tom for the help.
Miss M. Were you ever going to give a lesson on the origin of the finger as a bad gesture towards some one
If so I think I may have messed it up a little for you. If not how about a lesson and its origins on the “finger” and other hand gestures from other countries as a bad sign to give someone.
Thanks Mike
Hey Marina
What is a ” PIG-HEADED ” person?
Marina. I have a request… ZOMBIE?
Don’t you want to know about
a zombie computer?
Found on Wikipedia - LOL!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_computer
Mel, you’re CRUEL!
Thats an old hacker tool. Most hackers today are using zombie computers. Schools and Universities where the best because the admins didn’t have a clue on how to secure a network. They where a good choice to use because they usually had a fast connection like a T-1 or OC-12. Windows 95 and 98 are very easy to make into zombies. Vista came out with a method to stop that but they took the route and made the user responsible for every piece of code to be installed. See apple ad: Vista Security
Apple solved the problem by asking you only once for permission on software that is not pre-approved with apple. Im still finding computer systems that are still using Win95,98, and DOS 3.1. They are usually not connected to the internet just the local network so they are relatively safe from hackers.
Why do Brits add an “R” to the long “A”, like in the word “America”? To me it sounds like “Armericar”. Arse and Ass seem to follow that pattern.
Booty, Rump, & Tush: Is there any explanations for these? (especially booty, why booty?)
Anyone know why the video won’t load on this site, only that annoying swirling in the middle. I have to go to you tube to view, then log in again to vote. HELP !!
Marina is using an HQ format on this site.
Youtube has standard quality available by default.
Let us know how this works for you. Then come
back here and comment.
Try another web browser
Unfortunatly since one month or more, I have bee unable to view your videos. Sometimes I can´t make it work altoguether and sometimes I can see only the video and not the sound.
Marina is using an HQ format.
Youtube has standard quality
available by default.
Let us know how this works for you
then arse doesn’t have a meaning of donkey???
Hi this is GERONIMO from the U.S.A. Where did Donkey come from?
Wow, I really liked Paris Hilton’s response to the political campaign ad featuring Brittany, Obama and her…. I think you could do an even better… How about words around politics today *Pandering *Lies *Politicians *Gaff *Spin *elitist *hope. I really love smart and funny…. Perhaps you want to run for president too, although I think you are smarter and not likely to have the White house painted PINK! Here is some smart commentary and the Paris ad that I am referring to: http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenerg y/archive/2008/08/05/fact-checking-paris-hilton-on -drilling.aspx
“smart” commentary???
From Paris Hilton?
Yeah, right!
Ride the wave, dude
don’t mind the rocks….
The Smart commentary was from Bradford Plumer (The Vine -TNR). I know very little about Paris as I don’t follow it… I DO follow stuff (like our US politics) that could, and has changed my world… I am also a student of marketing and think that it was great to Paris to respond…. It was fun and compelling, alot like HFW is fun and compelling. (I bet you cannot watch just HALF of the Paris ad in the same way you cannot watch just half of a HFW video. You want the WHOLE story! My suggestion is that perhaps Marina would like to play in this ‘political’ area too. Marina is “great with words” as is Obama.
Obama is great with words? He speaks in empty double talk. The Ad was funny but make no mistake, the only thing Paris had to do with it is reading the lines.
I can enjoy Marina a lot better without all the parlor tricks (politics).
We’re stuck bad enough having to choose between BO and JMcC.
OPEC has done more to change your world than either of them!
Let’s drop it here and leave it to the only poll that counts, the November election results, ok?
great.
and next time you want pr0n, just ask. ;P
It wasn’t that I was trying to download
You were downloading warez.. and you discovered first hand the dangers of downloading warez, right?
Guess again! You know those websites that say install this
And if you click no they come back. That’s what I did. I took the window up to the tab so I could quickly press x then close the tab. It didn’t work so I pressed download and closed the tab. As I am so used to opening everything I download as soon as it arrives I forgot myself and pressed open. I was up till 2am doing scans!
Will not do that again!
AVG should prevent that from happening again.
You’ll get a warning when you attempt to enter
a site trying to hack you. Bypass at your own risk!
Zango is another nasty one to avoid altogether!
What in the world is warez? Is it like some cracker website that takes over your computer or something? I don’t know.
Marina, what’s the difference between a hacker and a cracker?
-Shawn Norris
Young grasshopper is learning!
Shawn,
Warez it a term used for pirated software.
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Although the term “hacker” has taken on negative connotations, it was once a flattering label reserved for those who could appreciate, operate and program computers. References to hackers and hacking in the computer culture are thought to date from the 1960’s.
As noted in the third edition of The New Hacker’s Dictionary (M.I.T. Press, 1996), Eric S. Raymond’s compilation of computer-related jargon, a hacker is “a person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.” The text also notes the original definition of the word: “someone who makes furniture with an ax.”
Steve Jobs (Apple) and Bill Gate (MS) where called hackers back in the 70’s. So hacking or sometimes called White Hat Hacking.
Over the years, the term “hacker” came to be used to refer to people who used their knowledge of computers to break into other people’s systems to steal data and passwords and wreak havoc. This became Black Hat Hacking.
Old-time hackers who do not condone such behavior refer to these intruders as crackers, but that usage has not gained wide recognition.
This is due mostly from the media not getting their facts straight and improperly using hacker instead of cracker in their articles.
WHY???……Do these posts turn pink
Do all Girls get pink ??
Is this the only Girl here and the rest of us are blue, ( boys )
I see this pink box each day and a lot of little blue boxes on it
James, if you’re using McAfee anti-virus, are you also using McAfee SiteAdvisor? It warns you before you interact with a dangerous Web site, to keep you safe from spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
I also use Firetrust Sitehound for the same purpose.
Is it free Bob?
Thank Gawd I own a Mac and I don’t have to deal with this crap…
well, jack … there are viruses and trojans for mac, though not in the wild. not yet. let’s assume millions of people switch to macs, what do you think is gonna happen? there’ll be thousands of viruses for macs out there.
I use Norton 360 and it lets me know before I open anything if there’s a virus inside the file/program. It’s not free but it seems worth it to me.
After walking two miles in the pouring rain to work; i have to ask; the origin of the expession… “It’s raining cats and dogs.”
bill
Here you go Elliott610. It is in the lessons section at the top of the page. Enjoy the video. It’s a good one
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/30/cats-and-dog s/
Thanks for the link. I think I have one; What do M&M’s stand for, if anything??
I know the company only puts M on their candy now. It stands for Mars Company. I don’t remember what the other M stood for unless is was Mars and Mars, like two brothers owning the company.
Marina,
I would rather discuss your physiognomy.
i want to know the origin of: make out
Cheek and cheeks.
Is dancing cheek to cheek a stingy (tight ass) solo act or just some fun doing the bump?
Is rump singular?
Just some grab ass questions.
Did James get his computer under control or is it still trying to eat him?
I killed it!
It was those ugly words you were saying to it on one of your videos.
That’s some magic table.
Blink and it’s a flower, blink and it’s bamboo, blink again and it a twig with a couple of leaves.
Off to go “Barse” fishing
to the boat slip.
I’ll put my ass on the “Hoss” (where’s Little Joe)
(I lied, I don’t have a hoss, it’s a hog)
Other words for rump.
Donkey i.e. Chief Ramsey
“6″ i.e. Check 6
Here is a word that i have found quite essential for the quints…..
Tetragrammaton
Is this a true 4 LETTER WORD?
I love etymology and linguistics….. I am a GEMINI so look out…
Huh?
Gemini?
politics and religion…
absurd to bring it here..
not to be a pervert but what about the word : pornography?
Pornia is the greek word for fornication and the graph is the word for image. I.E PhotoGRAPHY.
Porne is the Greek word for prostitute. The two Greek words must be related.
Essentially, porn actors are prostitutes because they are paid for sex.
I’ve heard that porn- means “harlet” (also prostitute) and graphy means “letter”. So pornography translates into “harlet letter”, or so I heard.
Porn does not mean harlot. The root word is Pornia and means Fornication. Fornication means any sex outside of marriage.
A peach is also used for a (normally appropriately shaped ) butt….. as in the Stranglers’ song…..”Standing on the beach-es , looking at the peach-es……..”
can you describe the word onomatopoeia please
I would be happy to. It starts with an ‘O’ ends with an ‘A’ has six syllables.
Don’t I make a great self appointed teachers assistant?
I have a question Marina. Who’s arse is that wearing the cut off jeans?
Good question, we need to get to the bottom of this asap.
Don’t you recognise the bag?
Maybe it’s Sister Words.
Twin Rumpus
It is definitely not Marina….
(thighs are too big - glide is too wide)
mine
Am I allowed to say “I never want to see you leave, but if you go…”
That pic, Blonde with the handgun, brown eyes, vid or two back, not you ???
No freaking way!!!
Guess you lost the baby fat
So, it IS her behind, and she IS very slender and beautiful!
Was there any doubt? Seesixcm6
Is it possible to do the ‘Chacha’ with your foot in your mouth?
Yes is yours, whatcha gonna do with it?
Yes is yours, whatcha gonna do with it
I am in deep doo doo!
(see comments above)
May I suggest a shoe horn for your mouth, and then maybe a little foot fungus gargle.
Denial, then blame
the resolution was BAD!
it was a panoramic lens?
What if the photo was taken last week Melika?
Take no offense. Im just helping you dig your grave.
Your key board slipped while you were typing. That’s it you couldn’t help it. Send her a url of a picture of a dozen Roses.
It’s clear that the Brits are more frank than the Yanks : they call a ARSE a ARSE. This ARSE is Pangermanic.
In French LE CUL is LE CUL and the same root is used in all other “Latin” languages.
But what about the panslavic word for ARSE ? In Russian ZHOPA but in Polish DUPA ???
Je ne vois pas de cul. Elle porte une culotte…
where does “Bobs your uncle” come from?
View this lesson: http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/22/say-uncle/
Does anybody like “Baby got back”
by Sir Mix-a-lot
Hippo Size
I can not lie…
“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”
- 1939
- The wizard of Oz
if I only had a brain, a heart, da noyve!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFpVsTuOpK8&feature =related
F B G
Hey Billy! Do they say arse or ass in your part of the woods?
I Never say arse nor do I associate with anyone that does
If speaking about one’s derriere, I use tush or tushy. “Ass” if I’m in the mood, but mostly if talking about behaviors “you were acting like an ass”, “dumbass”…etc.
A lot of rich folks & a high % of them English, live in the municipality of “Oak Bay”… when people from other parts of the city think of “Oak Bay” we think of it as a community of snobs, (maybe not justifiably) where I’m sure they call the rest of the city folks a bunch of arses.
Ironicly my wife is from Oak Bay, she calls me an ass, so she’s alright.
B F B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rF4_A3zhag
The word is dinkum
Even MS Word underlines it
Would anybody outside Australia use a phrase like “fair dinkum”?
I think the word ‘dinkum’ came from England and was street talk around Charles Dicken’s time. It’s use in England has died off.
There are a lot of words like that. They originated in England, came to Australia and then the use of the words or phrases disappeared in England.
Crickey. Good enough to me. Australia is still and English speaking country.
quix·ot·ic Audio Help /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kwik-sot-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. (sometimes initial capital letter) resembling or befitting Don Quixote.
2. extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
Someone asked about this word and wanted an definition.
just In case anyone misunderstood ?
Why would it be pronounced [kwik-sot-ik] when his name is pronounced (KEE OH TEE)
The word is quixotic. not Don Quixote but to act as poetic and romantic.
I know what it means, and have always heard people say KEE OH TIC.
So, burst became bust and barse became bass, that means that a chest up statue is a burst and a species of fish is barse?
Oh and for homework, um… BACK? as In Sir Mix-a-Lot’s song, Baby Got B