rump
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rump/rʌmp/
▶noun
- 1 the hind part of the body of a mammal or the lower back of a bird.
■ chiefly humorous a person's buttocks.
- 2 a small or unimportant remnant.
– derivatives
rumpless adjective.
rumpless adjective.
– origin ME: prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. and Norw. rumpe ‘backside’.
'rump' also found in these Oxford entries:
aitchbone
- beefsteak
- brambling
- bullfinch
- crop
- croup
- culottes
- drill
- fireback
- gelada
- grenadier
- hamadryas
- mandrill
- nates
- parson's nose
- pygidium
- rhesus monkey
- rump steak
- rumpy pumpy
- steatopygia
- twite
- uropygium
- wapiti
- wheatear
