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bot·tom

UK/ˈbɒt.əm/ US/ˈbɑ.təm/ common slang uk us
noun (7) adjective (3) verb (3)

noun

1.
2.

the lowest part of anything

  • “they started at the bottom of the hill”
3.

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

  • “he deserves a good kick in the butt”
  • “are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?”
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4.

the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat

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5.

a depression forming the ground under a body of water

  • “he searched for treasure on the ocean bed”
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6.
7.

a cargo ship

  • “they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms”
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adjective

1.

situated at the bottom or lowest position

  • “the bottom drawer”
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2.

at the bottom; lowest or last

  • “the bottom price”
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3.

the lowest rank

  • “bottom member of the class”
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verb

1.

provide with a bottom or a seat

  • “bottom the chairs”
2.

strike the ground, as with a ship''s bottom

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Origin

PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-? Proto-Indo-European *-mḗn Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn Proto-Germanic *butmaz Proto-West Germanic *botm Old English botm Middle English botme English bottom From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz (“bottom; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Cognates Cognate with Yola bothom, bottom (“bottom”), Saterland Frisian Boudem (“floor; ground”), West Frisian boaiem (“floor; ground”), Dutch bodem, boom, boôm (“bottom; ground, soil”), German Boden (“floor; ground; soil”), Limburgish baom (“bottom; ground, soil”), Luxembourgish Buedem (“bottom; earth, soil”), Vilamovian bödum (“bottom; ground”), Danish bund (“bottom”), Elfdalian buottn (“bottom”), Faroese botnur (“bottom”), Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk botn (“bottom”), Norwegian Bokmål botn, bunn (“bottom”), Swedish botten (“bottom”); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic bonn (“base, bottom; sole (of foot)”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar; the bottom of...

Phrases

  • ambulance at the bottom of a cliff Terms derived from bottom (noun)
  • anti-bottom quark Terms derived from bottom (noun)
  • artichoke bottom Terms derived from bottom (noun)
  • at bottom Terms derived from bottom (noun)
  • at the bottom of Terms derived from bottom (noun)
  • at the bottom of the pile Terms derived from bottom (noun)
  • bell-bottom trousers Terms derived from bottom (noun)
  • bet one's bottom dollar Terms derived from bottom (noun)
  • bottom dysphoria
  • bottom out
  • bottom surgeon
  • bottom surgery

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